Sunny Isles Twin
3025 Sunny Isles Boulevard,
North Miami Beach,
FL
33160
3025 Sunny Isles Boulevard,
North Miami Beach,
FL
33160
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In Austin, the Americana (1965) was pretty awesome – now a library. But the interior is gone. Nicely converted, though.
I’m assuming that the great details of the lobby are long gone – the tile work, etc. It was the most beautiful theater of the 60s, that I can remember. We’re lucky, in San Antonio, to have the older restored theaters (MAJESTIC, EMPIRE, AZTEC), but none of the 60s theaters survived. But we had NOTHING like this one (that I know, since I grew up in Miami, as a kid).
On further address research, the furniture store still stands:
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“Located in an old movie theatre, the architecture is as interesting as the furniture.” Scan Design seems to appreciate their home more than the City of Miami appreciates the Gusman right now.
Sometime in the 1980s, there was an attempt to refit the Sunny Isles as a twin Cinema & Drafthouse. Renderings appeared in the local press, but it never happened.
Better view than the mapping that I mentioned in March of 2009 – Google, at the time, only had a street view, I think.
Great ad Mike Rivest,could look at them all night.Thanks.
If you type in a current address,
3025 Sunny Isles Boulevard, 33160
You can actually see the twin auditoria and round lobby incorporated into the existing mall on this Bing map.
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December 16, 1966 grand opening ad can be found at the Miami Public Library in the microfilm collection or one click of your mouse below View link
This theatre operated from 1966 to 1984.
Articles on the Sunny Isles opening:
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I’ll Google Map it with a street view. I’m curious if it’s the same structure. Yep, it’s ScanDesign – the building is still very distinct. AA let me know that I saw the roadshow of “Chitty” there, and not 163rd Street, in 1968. I remember the place seeming so exotic to a six year-old. If only theaters could, these days, put a little bit of the whimsy back into their structures.
My parents finally confessed to us (my sister and I) a couple of years ago, that after we zonked out, they would sneaked out the house and go to this theatre. They saw James Bond’s Moonraker in the seventies. I never had the chance to go to this theatre but on the way to the beach, I loved the outside architecture and sign. Sign is similar to the one at The Mall at 163rd in North Miami Beach but smaller. Anyone have a picture of this theatre?
I made a mistake on the intro to this theatre. The opening film was “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, not “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Loved the midnight movies here…
I believe it may be this furniture store:
Inspiration Furniture By Scan Design
3025 Sunny Isles Blvd North Miami Beach, FL 33160 (305) 944-8080
Is this theater being used for something else these days or just laying dormant?
The address for this theatre was 3025 Interama Boulevard.