Ed Solero – if you Street View westerly on Fox Blvd near the intersection of Merrick Rd., zoom in to the contemporary-looking 2-story office building that is more center-block with a parking lot in front, surrounded by the Merrick Galleria shops (80’s architecture). That 2-story office building is the reworked Merrick Gables theater. I grew up in Merrick and had been to enough 99 cent double features in the ‘dump'during the 1970’s to know.
2209 Merrick Rd., Merrick is the current address. Technically, the theater was stripped to the steel back in the late ‘80s, and the building was rebuilt and repurposed. The 'theater’ frame is now a 2-story office building and the Merrick Rd. streetfront are now stores. It was named for the housing development built in the 1920’s by Charles Fox known as the “Merrick Gables”. Matter of fact, Fox Blvd. is on the side of the former theater and a street view down the street will show examples of these Spanish-type homes.
Ed Solero – if you Street View westerly on Fox Blvd near the intersection of Merrick Rd., zoom in to the contemporary-looking 2-story office building that is more center-block with a parking lot in front, surrounded by the Merrick Galleria shops (80’s architecture). That 2-story office building is the reworked Merrick Gables theater. I grew up in Merrick and had been to enough 99 cent double features in the ‘dump'during the 1970’s to know.
2209 Merrick Rd., Merrick is the current address. Technically, the theater was stripped to the steel back in the late ‘80s, and the building was rebuilt and repurposed. The 'theater’ frame is now a 2-story office building and the Merrick Rd. streetfront are now stores. It was named for the housing development built in the 1920’s by Charles Fox known as the “Merrick Gables”. Matter of fact, Fox Blvd. is on the side of the former theater and a street view down the street will show examples of these Spanish-type homes.