I HAVE A PROTEST;
I went to the Bayshore Sunrise in its final days. They were great times,just me and the 1972 Cutlass I bought in 1986. I would sit there with the radio playing, watching some great movies.
I would like to say how grand United Artists Cinemas is. They are the grandest bunch of idiots for closing the drive in movies on Long Island. They could not capitalize on the nostalgia craze that I am happy to be part of. Today we yearn for earlier times, even times before our own. Chuck the modern multiplex, no matter how nice they are, bring back the Long Island Drive In. By the way, would someone who has information on the Patchogue Sunrise please send it to this site. I was there, and, if I knew the theater’s history I would do it.
Thank You
Hello Everybody;
I never was to the Lane, but we owned a business in the area around it. You may be wondering why I am writing this. As I worked the area I learned how important the theater is to the people of New Dorp. I know that it’s a landmark for those people. I don’t have the money, but I think someone should fix it and presents plays there. In other words, it should be restored and used for legitimate theater, like they did for the Patchogue Theater (Now the Patchogue Center for the Performing Arts) out here on Long Island. The Art Deco should be repaired. The store I worked, GW Hot Bagels and Deli was about two blocks up the street, and before finances forced our deli closed, I couldn’t wait for the day I would deliver to the Lane, which never came.
To Longislandmovies and everybody;
You said that mall theaters do not work. Well, the Smith Haven Mall proved you wrong. It lasted from the 1960s well into the late 1990s. Of course there were modifications, including the change to a multiplex, but that was in the 1990s.
I recall going to this theater when it was a single. In the 1980s, when I spent many an hour going to movies, it was nice to see a theater like this. This was a time when many theaters had bare screens with just some projected designs, if anything. THIS ONE HAD A CURTAIN. In other words, it was a likable throwback to simpler times. It was a small contemporary picture palace in a shoebox. That was its charm, and it held despite the sticky floors. I would have preferred they keep it that way instead of making it a multiplex. The nasty staff of the multiplex did not help anything anyway. We need more of these shoebox picture palaces, and that’s the way it is. The few times I went to the original Smith Haven Mall Theater were gems, and that’s the way I remember it.
Hello;
I decided to say that the theater was not at the corner of Nostrand and Church, but in the middle of the block on Church Avenue. I remember the first show I saw there was the Jungle Book. I recall the theater had these red, circular lights on the walls after the houselights dimmed. IF YOU ASK ME THEY SHOULD’VE RESTORED THE PLACE. Too bad many Brooklyn Movie Palaces went to their reward. Why did they have to do it?
Sincerely
Alan G. Wasenius
Hello;
I would like to comment to the person above who mistook the Brookhaven Multiplex for the Brookhaven Theater. I was to both of them. Frankly, I can see your love for the Brookhaven Theater, which was in Port Jefferson, because I remember sitting in the Balcony for Footloose in the 1980s. It was a grand theater and they should have never tore it apart to make that Blockbuster video. The Brookhaven Multiplex was miles from Port Jefferson in Medford. It was a great theater for its time, and someone should take the place over.
Hello;
This was not the Valley Stream Sunrise Drive In as, it seems, one person seems to think. The Valley Stream Sunrise was located near Green Acres Mall. When I last passed their the site was occupied by the Sunrise Multiplex.
I HAVE A PROTEST;
I went to the Bayshore Sunrise in its final days. They were great times,just me and the 1972 Cutlass I bought in 1986. I would sit there with the radio playing, watching some great movies.
I would like to say how grand United Artists Cinemas is. They are the grandest bunch of idiots for closing the drive in movies on Long Island. They could not capitalize on the nostalgia craze that I am happy to be part of. Today we yearn for earlier times, even times before our own. Chuck the modern multiplex, no matter how nice they are, bring back the Long Island Drive In. By the way, would someone who has information on the Patchogue Sunrise please send it to this site. I was there, and, if I knew the theater’s history I would do it.
Thank You
Hello Everybody;
I never was to the Lane, but we owned a business in the area around it. You may be wondering why I am writing this. As I worked the area I learned how important the theater is to the people of New Dorp. I know that it’s a landmark for those people. I don’t have the money, but I think someone should fix it and presents plays there. In other words, it should be restored and used for legitimate theater, like they did for the Patchogue Theater (Now the Patchogue Center for the Performing Arts) out here on Long Island. The Art Deco should be repaired. The store I worked, GW Hot Bagels and Deli was about two blocks up the street, and before finances forced our deli closed, I couldn’t wait for the day I would deliver to the Lane, which never came.
To Longislandmovies and everybody;
You said that mall theaters do not work. Well, the Smith Haven Mall proved you wrong. It lasted from the 1960s well into the late 1990s. Of course there were modifications, including the change to a multiplex, but that was in the 1990s.
I recall going to this theater when it was a single. In the 1980s, when I spent many an hour going to movies, it was nice to see a theater like this. This was a time when many theaters had bare screens with just some projected designs, if anything. THIS ONE HAD A CURTAIN. In other words, it was a likable throwback to simpler times. It was a small contemporary picture palace in a shoebox. That was its charm, and it held despite the sticky floors. I would have preferred they keep it that way instead of making it a multiplex. The nasty staff of the multiplex did not help anything anyway. We need more of these shoebox picture palaces, and that’s the way it is. The few times I went to the original Smith Haven Mall Theater were gems, and that’s the way I remember it.
Hello;
I decided to say that the theater was not at the corner of Nostrand and Church, but in the middle of the block on Church Avenue. I remember the first show I saw there was the Jungle Book. I recall the theater had these red, circular lights on the walls after the houselights dimmed. IF YOU ASK ME THEY SHOULD’VE RESTORED THE PLACE. Too bad many Brooklyn Movie Palaces went to their reward. Why did they have to do it?
Sincerely
Alan G. Wasenius
Hello;
I would like to comment to the person above who mistook the Brookhaven Multiplex for the Brookhaven Theater. I was to both of them. Frankly, I can see your love for the Brookhaven Theater, which was in Port Jefferson, because I remember sitting in the Balcony for Footloose in the 1980s. It was a grand theater and they should have never tore it apart to make that Blockbuster video. The Brookhaven Multiplex was miles from Port Jefferson in Medford. It was a great theater for its time, and someone should take the place over.
Hello;
This was not the Valley Stream Sunrise Drive In as, it seems, one person seems to think. The Valley Stream Sunrise was located near Green Acres Mall. When I last passed their the site was occupied by the Sunrise Multiplex.