AMC Roosevelt Field 8

The old escalator was to the right side across from theater 2 and it’s now just ada ramps

@rivest266 When they went to six on December 19, 1986, 2 of the 4 additional screens were open, but the work wasn’t completed until May 22, 1987. The official Grand Opening as 8 screens wasn’t until end of the year, because Loews had to finish the interior lobby construction that they inherited from RKO Century expansion. The 4 additional was a RKO Century Project, prior to the merger. A Grand Opening ad of 8 is already in the photos section.

It’s a better quality version. 4 screens on June 6th, 1986, 6 screens on December 19th, 1986, 8 screens on May 22nd, 1987, and taken over by Loew’s on July 31st, 1987. No ads found for these dates.

Grand opening ad: Century’s Roosevelt Field theatre opening 28 Aug 1962, Tue Newsday (Nassau Edition) (Hempstead, New York) Newspapers.com

In the remarks, It wasn’t rebuilt from scratch. The 8 screen complex remained the same, with the exception was the front part of the original Century being extended to make it ADA accessible, and moving the balcony of the theatre redone with entrances in the back and the 1987 extension remained intact.

AMC couldn’t stay open during renovations like other complexes since it didn’t have sections that could of been roped off. This was the same when the AMC Fantasy was renovated..

Please remove which required gutting the entire building. The original building had to be renovated to make it ADA accessible with escalators and move the balcony entrances to the back and removing the staircases from the old entrance. Just part of the building was renovated. Please review my photos.

This was my first visit since the renovation, all of the 8 screens, no masking. The only screens that are scope screens (masking for FLAT) is theatres 5 (old theatre 3 and former 70MM house balcony) and theatre 8.

The theatre layout is the same prior to the renovation, AMC added 2 escalators to the second floor and theatre 5/6 (former balcony) you enter in the back. It has two men/women restrooms but not enough stalls in the main Men’s room in the lobby.

The sound proofing was poor, I heard the sound from theatre 2 while watching my movie in theatre 1.

AMC removed the auxiliary refreshment stand on the 2nd floor. I posted a few photos of the theatre and I have old photos which I put up a few years ago.

Please update, RKO Century open it as a triplex on April 15, 1983. On June 6, 1986 it became a quad. It became 8 screens on December 19-26, 1986 under RKO Century controlling the theatre. It was taken over by Loews in the summer of 1987 after the Cineplex Odeon take over of RKO Century.

Century Theatres made it a twin sometime in late 1978.

Once I finish my research, I give you the date it became a quad and then eight. Sometime in 1986, RKO Century announced plans to expand it from 3 to 8. It was quad for a short time until the expansion open. The eight plex expansion was by RKO Century before Cineplex Odeon bought the chain. When Loews acquired the theatre on June 19, 1987, they had to finish the interior work that wasn’t finish by RKO Century.

When it was a triplex, the lower theatre split in half and theatre 3 was the balcony. In 1986, it was split in the balcony ¾ for theatre 3 and ¼ for theatre 4. Theatre 5 and 6 was the lower level to the expansion and theatre 7 and 8 were on the 2nd level of the new wing.

When the expansion was done, there was an escalator that took you from the lobby for theatres 7 and 8. Theatres 3 and 4 were not ADA accessible at that time. The capacities in 1987 was Theatre 1 424 Theatre 2 419 Theatre 3 296 Theatre 4 219 Theatre 5 171 Theatre 6 250 Theatre 7 183 Theatre 8 259

After 2015 when AMC put their Signature Recliners, the theatre retain the old century layout but the theatre became fully ADA accessible.

The new capacity are base on AMC RSVP ticketing system: Theatre 1 135 Theatre 2 155 Theatre 3 70 (that was old Theatre 5 on the added space) Theatre 4 111 (that was old Theatre 6 on the added space) Theatre 5 111 (old Theatre 3 balcony, but you now enter in the back of theatre) Theatre 6 47 (old Theatre 4 balcony, but you now enter in the back of theatre) Theatre 7 83 same location as in 1987 Theatre 8 94 same location as in 1987 Source of the redo numbers based on pictures veiw on Yelp, Google and Foursquare Upstairs screens now are fully ADA and has an escaltor built near Theatre 1

I went a few times in the 1980 until 2005. I was their the first weekend when Loews took over control from Cineplex Odeon, the interior work wasn’t finish.

Well there are no projectionists anymore. No one to keep track of bulb useage.

the location is now the “AMC Roosevelt Field 8”. AMC is currently phasing out the Lowes brand as the locations are upgraded and changed over to one of there 3 current Brands.

Century’s Roosevelt Field first opened to the public on August 29h, 1962, with a gala charity event the night before. An ad has been posted in the Photos Section. Seating capacity for the single screen cinema was reported as 1,700.

They also probably figure that their targeted audience of millennials will look everything up on their smartphones & will not even look up to see what titles are listed on the marquee of the theatre. Unfortunately it’s not just AMC as Cineplex is also doing the same thing up in Canada as they are renovating the older Famous Players Multiplexes they have owned since 2005.

With the longevity of films it’s fairly unnecessary to advertise what’s playing. If it’s a first run theatre they’re playing all the new movies. Granted at an 8-plex they may not have ALL the new movies, they have most of them.

Besides — most people don’t just show up without already knowing what’s playing. They’ve checked showtimes on the internet and decided that this theatre is the one they’re going to at a certain time.

So what’s it like after the long reno?