Almost every theatre owned by AMC, Loews Cineplex and Regal Entertainment Group now shows commercials before the movie. The main company responsible, National CineMedia, is jointly owned by AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group.
Hdtv267, the old “SamEric” circular marquee has been gone since at least the beginning of May. I posted a picture here. This picture was taken in May of this year.
The AMC Orleans 8 was already going downhill well before Bob Green and Philadelphia Park Racetrack opened Turf Club Northeast. In NYC, at their OTB locations (that looks like 7-Eleven), you cannot eat or drink in there, unless you buy your soda from a vending machine. The 3 teletheatres and the 6 restaurants also will not let you bring in outside food, soda or beer, but you can buy lunch or dinner, have a few beers, and place you bets easily.
On a sidenote: The Philadelphia Park Turf Club Brandywine is locted in the former United Artists-Eric Concordville 4 Theatre building. And the Philadelphia Park Turf Club South Philadelphia is a block away from Citizens Bank Park, and 2 blocks away from Lincoln Financial Field, Wachovia Spectrum and Wachovia Center.
Up in New York City, the Off Track Betting facilities are as common as a 7 Eleven. New York City Off Track Betting has 90 OTB facilities, 3 Tele-theatres locations, and 6 resturant locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Also, NYC has Aqueduct Racetrack, which shares its parking lot with The Home Depot, and has the REG Cross Bay II 7 Theatre down the street from it. The William Goldman’s/Budco/AMC Orleans 8 is in this same situation.
Screens 5 to 8 of the Orleans 8 opened 11 years after the Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas / AMC Woodhaven Mall 4 / AMC Woodhaven 10 opened. Woodhaven opened in 1973, Budco Orleans #5-8 opened in 1984.
The Wachovia Bank acroos the street from the William Goldman’s/Budco/AMCOrleans was never a restaurant. It opened as a First Pennsylvania Bank branch. The Doral’s Catering facility is now a Philadelphia Park Turf Club Northeast OTB facility.
The AMC Orleans 8 (Former William Goldman’s/Budco Orleans Theatre) has been rumored to close first at the end of 2004, then in the summer of 2005, now in early 2006. The current Theatre #1-4 has been around since 1963, when William Goldman Theatres co. first opened the Orleans Theatre. The current #5-8 opened after Pathmark closed their supermarket, which now houses Orleans #5-8 and Pep Boys.
When the Sameric 4 closed, the seat counts for House 2 and 3 were at 363 seats each, down from the 450 when they opened on 7/16/1982, and House 4 was at 200 seats, down from the 225 when it opened on 6/12/1985. Some of the seats were removed for wheelchair patrons.
The seats count for the main floor in Sameric House 1 (aka RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd), in March 2002, was at 1349 seats.
The AMC Neshaminy 24 has won the Bucks County Courer Times “Best Of Bucks” award for movie theatres for the 7th Time. The theatre has won this award every year since 1999.
In the early 1940’s, The Fox Theatre was part of Warner Brothers' Stanley Warner Theatres division, along with the Stanton, the Stanley, the Karlton, the Boyd, the Aldine, the Earle, the Palace, and the Mastbaum. Today, only the Boyd (closed as REG United Artists Sameric 4 Theatre), the Karlton (AKA William Goldman’s Midtown Theatre, AMC-Budco Midtown Twin Theatre and Prince Music Theatre) and the Aldine (AKA Viking Theatre, Rugoff’s Cinema 19 Theatre, Sameric-United Artists Sam’s Place Twin, and CVS/pharmacy) is all that remains from the Stanley Warner-RKO Stanley Warner chain.
The biggest crowd the AMC Neshaminy 24 had for a “midnight showing” was back in May 18, 2005, when 16 of the 24 auditoriums (#1-2, 7-18, 23-24) were sold out for “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith”. The next one, with 14 sold out auditoriums (#1-2, 7-9, 11-13, 15-18, 23-24) on December 16, 2003 for “The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King”
I’ve passe by the Boyd a couple of weeks ago, and the front of the Boyd still looks like it hasn’t changed since I took a picture of it back in May. The Boyd still has, in damaged condition, the 1953 “Boyd” cinerama marquee with the 1985 “Sameric 4” vertical marquee above it. I can’t wait to see, when completed, the original 1928 marquee on this great palace.
Here is a link to a picture of the Mastbaum, taken in mid to late 1957: [url]http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?42180[/url]. you can also see, in the background, The Erlanger Theatre. Sadly, The Mastbaum Theatre, The Elanger Theatre, and the PTC 8000 series trolley cars are gone now.
Back in May, I took 2 pictures of the outside of the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd/Regal Entertainment Group’s United Artists Sameric 4 Theatre, with the exposed 1953 “Boyd” name on the marquee, and the Sameric 4 vertical marquee (Which is where the original 1928 vertical “Boyd” sign was located from December, 1928 to June, 1930.
It will be excellent to see the original 1928 marquee back on the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre once again.
The old 1953 Cinerama marquee of the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre is in sad shape, along with the vertical Sameric 4 marquee. You can see holes in the “Boyd” name where the Sameric name was attached to back in November 1971, after Sam Shapiro acquired the theatre from Pacific Theatres Company’s RKO Stanley Warner Theatres division.
The Ritz theatres are not considered “Movie Palaces”. The Movie Palaces of the old days included: RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre (REG Sameric 4 Theatre), RKO Stanley Warner’s Stanley Theatre, Milgram’s Fox Theatre, Milgram’s Milgram Theatre (RKO Stanley Warner’s Stanton Theatre), Stanley Warner’s Earle Theatre, Stanley Warner’s Mastbaum Theatre, Stanley Warner’s Aldine Theatre (United Artists Sam’s Place Twin), Goldman’s Goldman Theatre, to name a few.
Market Street is not south of Chestnut Street. Market Street is north of Chestnut Street, so that will make Veyoung and Andy P right. The 000 Block of South 15th Street starts at Market Street and ends at Chestnut Street. The 100 block of south 15th Street starts at Chestnut Street and ends at Walnut Street
The Har-Mar 11 setup (1-3 in the original building, 4-11 in a former supermarket) sound somewhat like the setup at the AMC Orleans 8 Theatre in Philadelphia (1-4 in the original building, built by William Goldman Theatres, 5-8 in the back of a former Pathmark Supermarket, with the front taken by a Pep Boys Auto Store)
There has been rumors that Target is supposed to acquire the land which hoses the AMC (Goldman’s)Orleans 1-4, the AMC Orleans 5-8/Pep Boys Auto (Pathmark/Shop Rite), the Hollywood Bistro, and the Pet Smart (Lionel’s Kiddie City), but it just rumors.
Today’s NY Post has the the former Loews Cineplex New York Twin/Crown New York Twin/Clearview’s New York One and Two Theatre listed now as “Clearview’s Beekman One And Two”.
The only 2 theatre buildings from the old Rugoff Theatres (Cinema 5) chain that is still standing, after the Beekman is demolished, are the City Cinemas Cinema 1, 2, 3 (Cinema I and Cinema II), and in Philadelphia, The United Artists Sam’s Place Twin Theatre building (also was home to Stanley Warner’s Aldine Theatre, Viking Theatre, and Rugoff’s Cinema 19 Theatre), which has a CVS Pharmacy in the building.
AMC Entertainment, Regal Entertainment Group, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Mann Theatres, and Pacific Theatres are a lot better than City Cinemas. Even the old RKO Century Warner chain (RKO Stanley Warner, Rugoff/Cinema 5, Century Theatres) is better than City Cinemas.
City Cinemas owners, Reading Entertainment was way better when they known as The Reading Railroad Company, and had their headquarters at the Reading Terminal, NE Corner of 11th and Market Streets, in Philadelphia, PA.
Almost every theatre owned by AMC, Loews Cineplex and Regal Entertainment Group now shows commercials before the movie. The main company responsible, National CineMedia, is jointly owned by AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group.
Hdtv267, the old “SamEric” circular marquee has been gone since at least the beginning of May. I posted a picture here. This picture was taken in May of this year.
The AMC Orleans 8 was already going downhill well before Bob Green and Philadelphia Park Racetrack opened Turf Club Northeast. In NYC, at their OTB locations (that looks like 7-Eleven), you cannot eat or drink in there, unless you buy your soda from a vending machine. The 3 teletheatres and the 6 restaurants also will not let you bring in outside food, soda or beer, but you can buy lunch or dinner, have a few beers, and place you bets easily.
On a sidenote: The Philadelphia Park Turf Club Brandywine is locted in the former United Artists-Eric Concordville 4 Theatre building. And the Philadelphia Park Turf Club South Philadelphia is a block away from Citizens Bank Park, and 2 blocks away from Lincoln Financial Field, Wachovia Spectrum and Wachovia Center.
Up in New York City, the Off Track Betting facilities are as common as a 7 Eleven. New York City Off Track Betting has 90 OTB facilities, 3 Tele-theatres locations, and 6 resturant locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Also, NYC has Aqueduct Racetrack, which shares its parking lot with The Home Depot, and has the REG Cross Bay II 7 Theatre down the street from it. The William Goldman’s/Budco/AMC Orleans 8 is in this same situation.
Screens 5 to 8 of the Orleans 8 opened 11 years after the Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas / AMC Woodhaven Mall 4 / AMC Woodhaven 10 opened. Woodhaven opened in 1973, Budco Orleans #5-8 opened in 1984.
The Wachovia Bank acroos the street from the William Goldman’s/Budco/AMCOrleans was never a restaurant. It opened as a First Pennsylvania Bank branch. The Doral’s Catering facility is now a Philadelphia Park Turf Club Northeast OTB facility.
The AMC Orleans 8 (Former William Goldman’s/Budco Orleans Theatre) has been rumored to close first at the end of 2004, then in the summer of 2005, now in early 2006. The current Theatre #1-4 has been around since 1963, when William Goldman Theatres co. first opened the Orleans Theatre. The current #5-8 opened after Pathmark closed their supermarket, which now houses Orleans #5-8 and Pep Boys.
Yoc an’t put the blame squarely on AMC for the decline of the Orleans. Most of the blame falls with the old Budco Theatres chain.
When the Sameric 4 closed, the seat counts for House 2 and 3 were at 363 seats each, down from the 450 when they opened on 7/16/1982, and House 4 was at 200 seats, down from the 225 when it opened on 6/12/1985. Some of the seats were removed for wheelchair patrons.
The seats count for the main floor in Sameric House 1 (aka RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd), in March 2002, was at 1349 seats.
The AMC Neshaminy 24 has won the Bucks County Courer Times “Best Of Bucks” award for movie theatres for the 7th Time. The theatre has won this award every year since 1999.
In the early 1940’s, The Fox Theatre was part of Warner Brothers' Stanley Warner Theatres division, along with the Stanton, the Stanley, the Karlton, the Boyd, the Aldine, the Earle, the Palace, and the Mastbaum. Today, only the Boyd (closed as REG United Artists Sameric 4 Theatre), the Karlton (AKA William Goldman’s Midtown Theatre, AMC-Budco Midtown Twin Theatre and Prince Music Theatre) and the Aldine (AKA Viking Theatre, Rugoff’s Cinema 19 Theatre, Sameric-United Artists Sam’s Place Twin, and CVS/pharmacy) is all that remains from the Stanley Warner-RKO Stanley Warner chain.
The biggest crowd the AMC Neshaminy 24 had for a “midnight showing” was back in May 18, 2005, when 16 of the 24 auditoriums (#1-2, 7-18, 23-24) were sold out for “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith”. The next one, with 14 sold out auditoriums (#1-2, 7-9, 11-13, 15-18, 23-24) on December 16, 2003 for “The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King”
I’ve passe by the Boyd a couple of weeks ago, and the front of the Boyd still looks like it hasn’t changed since I took a picture of it back in May. The Boyd still has, in damaged condition, the 1953 “Boyd” cinerama marquee with the 1985 “Sameric 4” vertical marquee above it. I can’t wait to see, when completed, the original 1928 marquee on this great palace.
Here is a link to a picture of the Mastbaum, taken in mid to late 1957: [url]http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?42180[/url]. you can also see, in the background, The Erlanger Theatre. Sadly, The Mastbaum Theatre, The Elanger Theatre, and the PTC 8000 series trolley cars are gone now.
Back in May, I took 2 pictures of the outside of the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd/Regal Entertainment Group’s United Artists Sameric 4 Theatre, with the exposed 1953 “Boyd” name on the marquee, and the Sameric 4 vertical marquee (Which is where the original 1928 vertical “Boyd” sign was located from December, 1928 to June, 1930.
It will be excellent to see the original 1928 marquee back on the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre once again.
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The old 1953 Cinerama marquee of the RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre is in sad shape, along with the vertical Sameric 4 marquee. You can see holes in the “Boyd” name where the Sameric name was attached to back in November 1971, after Sam Shapiro acquired the theatre from Pacific Theatres Company’s RKO Stanley Warner Theatres division.
The Ritz theatres are not considered “Movie Palaces”. The Movie Palaces of the old days included: RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd Theatre (REG Sameric 4 Theatre), RKO Stanley Warner’s Stanley Theatre, Milgram’s Fox Theatre, Milgram’s Milgram Theatre (RKO Stanley Warner’s Stanton Theatre), Stanley Warner’s Earle Theatre, Stanley Warner’s Mastbaum Theatre, Stanley Warner’s Aldine Theatre (United Artists Sam’s Place Twin), Goldman’s Goldman Theatre, to name a few.
I not sure if this was mentioned, but seating for the Sameric 4 Theatre was as follows:
Auditorium #1 (RKO Stanley Warner’s Boyd): 2350 seats, with 1349 seats on the first floor.
Auditorium #2: 363
Auditorium #3: 363
Auditorium #4: 200
Market Street is not south of Chestnut Street. Market Street is north of Chestnut Street, so that will make Veyoung and Andy P right. The 000 Block of South 15th Street starts at Market Street and ends at Chestnut Street. The 100 block of south 15th Street starts at Chestnut Street and ends at Walnut Street
The Har-Mar 11 setup (1-3 in the original building, 4-11 in a former supermarket) sound somewhat like the setup at the AMC Orleans 8 Theatre in Philadelphia (1-4 in the original building, built by William Goldman Theatres, 5-8 in the back of a former Pathmark Supermarket, with the front taken by a Pep Boys Auto Store)
Was this one of the last theatres AMC opened when they were still known as Durwood Theatres?
There has been rumors that Target is supposed to acquire the land which hoses the AMC (Goldman’s)Orleans 1-4, the AMC Orleans 5-8/Pep Boys Auto (Pathmark/Shop Rite), the Hollywood Bistro, and the Pet Smart (Lionel’s Kiddie City), but it just rumors.
Today’s NY Post has the the former Loews Cineplex New York Twin/Crown New York Twin/Clearview’s New York One and Two Theatre listed now as “Clearview’s Beekman One And Two”.
The only 2 theatre buildings from the old Rugoff Theatres (Cinema 5) chain that is still standing, after the Beekman is demolished, are the City Cinemas Cinema 1, 2, 3 (Cinema I and Cinema II), and in Philadelphia, The United Artists Sam’s Place Twin Theatre building (also was home to Stanley Warner’s Aldine Theatre, Viking Theatre, and Rugoff’s Cinema 19 Theatre), which has a CVS Pharmacy in the building.
The NY Post also now list this Theatre as “Clearview’s Beekman One And Two”. It is playing this past week “Red Eye” and “Four Brothers”.
AMC Entertainment, Regal Entertainment Group, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Mann Theatres, and Pacific Theatres are a lot better than City Cinemas. Even the old RKO Century Warner chain (RKO Stanley Warner, Rugoff/Cinema 5, Century Theatres) is better than City Cinemas.
City Cinemas owners, Reading Entertainment was way better when they known as The Reading Railroad Company, and had their headquarters at the Reading Terminal, NE Corner of 11th and Market Streets, in Philadelphia, PA.