Hey Warren — is/was the Park Theatre in South Ozone the one I knew as the UA Crossbay? It was where Rockaway Boulevard crossed Liberty Avenue (at Crossbay Boulevard).
Which, BTW, is no longer a movie house. It closed a year or two ago.
Its sister theater, UA Crossbay II, is still open, several blocks away.
Hi guys,
the photo on Forgotten-ny is NOT the movie theater. The building in that shot is on the west side of 116th and down the block, on the “bay side” of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. The aerial shot from Bway is indeed, the theater. I think in the ‘70s it was called the Belle Harbor Theater. The last movie I remember seeing in there was “The Island at the Top of the Word.” It was a double-feature with a Disney release that ,for the life of me, I just can’t remember. One of the Herbie movies, maybe? I remember that the balcony was condemned and you weren’t supposed to go up there.
BTW, I was born and raised in Rockaway. I miss Playland and the old movie theaters. (There hasn’t been a movie theater in Rockaway since Surfside Cinema closed down, in the early '90s. It opened as a Jerry Lewis Theater around 1970? And when they started showing Rated R movies, lost their franchise.) Oh, and the zip code for the address? 11694
Hey Warren — is/was the Park Theatre in South Ozone the one I knew as the UA Crossbay? It was where Rockaway Boulevard crossed Liberty Avenue (at Crossbay Boulevard).
Which, BTW, is no longer a movie house. It closed a year or two ago.
Its sister theater, UA Crossbay II, is still open, several blocks away.
Hi guys,
the photo on Forgotten-ny is NOT the movie theater. The building in that shot is on the west side of 116th and down the block, on the “bay side” of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. The aerial shot from Bway is indeed, the theater. I think in the ‘70s it was called the Belle Harbor Theater. The last movie I remember seeing in there was “The Island at the Top of the Word.” It was a double-feature with a Disney release that ,for the life of me, I just can’t remember. One of the Herbie movies, maybe? I remember that the balcony was condemned and you weren’t supposed to go up there.
BTW, I was born and raised in Rockaway. I miss Playland and the old movie theaters. (There hasn’t been a movie theater in Rockaway since Surfside Cinema closed down, in the early '90s. It opened as a Jerry Lewis Theater around 1970? And when they started showing Rated R movies, lost their franchise.) Oh, and the zip code for the address? 11694