AMC Fresh Meadows 7
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
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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.
Taken over by Cineplex Odeon on July 30, 1986.
Once known as RKO Meadows Twin during its days with RKO Century.
Seating Capacity:
Total seats: 633 please update
Theatre 1 62 seats
Theatre 2 74 seats
Theatre 3 84 seats
Theatre 4 122 seats IMAX with Laser
Theatre 5 94 seats
Theatre 6 100 seats
Theatre 7 97 seats
From what I counted on the Fandango and AMC apps for the seating, here is what I got: Theatre #1: 62; Theatre #2: 74; Theatre #3: 84; Theatre #4 (IMAX at AMC,): 127; Theatre #5: 98; Theatre #6: 106; Theatre #7: 101. Total: 652
Please update, became a twin on March 16, 1979. Grand opening ad in photos section
add previous operator RKO Century Warner
Uploaded cover from Box Office Magazine showing the opening of Century’s Meadows as the lead story.
The seat reduction was in either 2013 or 2014, that was one of AMC Recliner theatres.
2,200 for a single screen theater built on Long Island after World War II was a big thing. A number of Hollywood stars were there for the opening. I remember seeing the newsreel of the opening that Century showed in it’s theaters after the event.
Even with its original 2,200 seats, it was hardly “giant” sized or even a “movie palace” in the sense of grandiose cinemas built in the 1920s into the early 1930s. And the free parking facilities were shared with the entire shopping complex, and not restricted to theatre patrons.
Far cry from the 2,200 it started life with.
Seating capacity 1. 62 2. 74 3. 84 4. 123 (IMAX) 5. 94 6. 100 7. 96 Total seats 633 Please update total seat count
The largest single-screen cinema built in the NYC borough of Queens after the end of WW2 will be 70 years old in November of this year. Many photos taken by patrons of the current multiplex can be viewed here
Please update, Went to 7 screens on May 27, 1988 under Cineplex Odeon. AMC added recliners a few years ago and the only IMAX theatre that not stadium seating.
I was General Manager for the Cineplex Odeon multiplex re-opening in 1988. Ex-manager Edward Bernhardt, who refused to run a multiplex version of the theatre, became my assistant, bedrock, co-conspirator and best friend.
Look at this, Eddie!
Comfortably Cool- unfortunately the link works for me. I remember when it was first open. A beautiful place. Now it’s the same crap that everybody else has.
OK, so I’ll try a different browser
It takes me to a page that has multiple views of the interior and exterior of the theater — no problem.
The link takes me to a Google maps page that allows the user to report content violations. It does, however, have one picture of the lobby…
Numerous exterior and interior views of the current multiplex can be found here
Johnfromthe80s- also still around are the Main Street Playhouse and the Bombay (formerly Mayfair).
DARCYDT noticed that already when i was browsing showtimes for Endgame on fandango.
This place has been around for ages, other than Movieworld its probably the only theater in the area that is still there. I remember it used to a two screen theater. Saw Raiders of the Lost Ark here and Young Sherlock Holmes, then later on it became a multiplex, then went another renovation in the 2000s, and a few years ago went yet another renovation.
Screen 4 is being converted to Imax