The Meadows was my first run theater from 1955 to 1968 when I moved out of the neighborhood. It was a great theater in those days, big screen, lots of seats, spacious lobby and great treats at the candy counter: Bonomos Turkish Taffy, chocolate covered ice cream drops, etc.
As a kid seeing Forbidden Planet was a major event. And later, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Over the years we saw everything from Perry The Flying Squirrel, to To Kill a Mockingbird and the Beatles in Help!
My mother liked to shop at Bloomingdales and occasionally we’d combine that with lunch at the Woolworth’s counter (BLT and a milkshake) and one of my mother’s guilty pleasures: a Pat Boone movie or something with Debbie Reynolds.
Years later, revisiting the neighborhood to see my widowed mom, we went to see a movie there and the experience was far from my fond memories of movies there in the past. We ended up in one of the small “plexes” upstairs with a tiny screen, poor sound and uncomfortable seats.
Remember the Roosevelt well from growing up in the neighborhood in the sixties. Saw Lilies of the Field there on a double bill with Pocketful of Miracles over the Christmas holidays in 1963. I think it was mostly a second run theater in those days. Interesting to read that it was built before the Keith’s and the Prospect in downtown Flushing.
The Meadows was my first run theater from 1955 to 1968 when I moved out of the neighborhood. It was a great theater in those days, big screen, lots of seats, spacious lobby and great treats at the candy counter: Bonomos Turkish Taffy, chocolate covered ice cream drops, etc.
As a kid seeing Forbidden Planet was a major event. And later, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Over the years we saw everything from Perry The Flying Squirrel, to To Kill a Mockingbird and the Beatles in Help!
My mother liked to shop at Bloomingdales and occasionally we’d combine that with lunch at the Woolworth’s counter (BLT and a milkshake) and one of my mother’s guilty pleasures: a Pat Boone movie or something with Debbie Reynolds.
Years later, revisiting the neighborhood to see my widowed mom, we went to see a movie there and the experience was far from my fond memories of movies there in the past. We ended up in one of the small “plexes” upstairs with a tiny screen, poor sound and uncomfortable seats.
Memorable for seeing first run of WOODSTOCK there, for which a special upgraded rock concert sound system was installed.
Remember the Roosevelt well from growing up in the neighborhood in the sixties. Saw Lilies of the Field there on a double bill with Pocketful of Miracles over the Christmas holidays in 1963. I think it was mostly a second run theater in those days. Interesting to read that it was built before the Keith’s and the Prospect in downtown Flushing.