Smith Haven Mall Theatre
15 Smith Haven Mall,
Lake Grove,
NY
11755
15 Smith Haven Mall,
Lake Grove,
NY
11755
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the fact that this theater closed saddens me. i saw logans run there, and bank shot, and cuckoo’s nest and rocky and judge roy bean and rambo and fiddler on the roof in 1971, and a host of wonderful indelible films and memories.
the neat thing about this theater was that it was possible to drop your kids off and shop the mall while they were safely tucked away in the theater. the last film i saw there was spy games, and the popcorn was still the best around, and the air conditioning felt great on a hot summer’s day. but the place was practically empty!
i used to walk 4 miles to this theater to catch “that’s entertainment”, then scout the mall and head home. what a wonderful place! sad that kids will no longer be able to enjoy it.
its a comment i think not so much on the theater’s owners or managers but on the incredibly crappy content coming out of hollywood. how can anyone maintain a quality viable theater with the spotty, non-escapist fare they have now?? i took my nephew to the holtsville island 16 this weekend and there was hardly anything a 12 year and an adult even wanted to see!! the drive to see great movies is there – the quality and content has packed up and left town. And the great Century theater at the Smithhaven Mall – and the Jerry Lewis theater and Ronkonkoma theater (when it showed family fare) are among its many victims.
i over saw the renovation of this theater for Cineplex Odeon never did the # ,it should .some of the big movies it did well with the Rambo series.
so is the layout for the stores the same as where the theaters used to be, like the old lobby and hallways to theaters, which are now stores? I wonder if any projectors remain, etc.
I miss this theatre, I used to go to it all the time when I was younger. The last time I went there was to see Blair Witch 2 right before it closed. My sister and I were the only ones in the theatre which made it a lot scarier. Yeah, you can’t even tell there was a theatre there since they put in all those new stores.
They have now opened stores up in the theaters old location. Aside from the large size of the stores that now occupy the location, there is no evidence a the theater ever even existed.
I was the manager that closed this theater when it was a single screen back in 1989. It reopened not as a twin, but a quad. I visited once, it was nice, but the small amount of traffic we’d had even before closing makes me unsurprised that the renovation didn’t garner significant business later.