RKO Commack Twin
Veterans Highway,
Commack,
NY
11725
Veterans Highway,
Commack,
NY
11725
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You’re the man LIMOVIES!!!!! How much for everything??????????
i have tons of old shit …. cineplex odeon REAL BUTTER APRONS (NEW)
DIRTY DANCING TUBE SOCKS …(SENT OUT AS A PROMO BEFORE THE MOVIE)
rko windo decals …rko uniform buttons (they say RKO)MUCH MORE
its white and has a UA badge on it …………
WOW!!!! LONGISLANDMOVIES—-I would love to see that Commack drive in jump suit. Does it have the words Commack drive in on it?
i have a commack drive in jump suit the manager gave me ..i loved all that memorabilia back then…
Don’t know…Bloop. I saw Rocky Horror at Haupauge also but in 1980. Also saw JAWS at Haupauge in 75. I missed POLYESTER at RKO but all my friends went without me. Thats awesome that you collected the cards. I actually saved the large popcorn box from RKO when I saw the THE OMEN there…but its now sadly gone. I was a freak when I was a kid about movie memorabilia.
Don’t know…Bloop. I saw Rocky Horror at Haupauge also but in 1980. Also saw JAWS at Haupauge in 75. I missed POLYESTER at RKO but all my friends went without me. Thats awesome that you collected the cards. I actually saved the large popcorn box from RKO when I saw the THE OMEN there…but its now sadly gone. I was a freak when I was a kid about movie memorabilia.
dsslave, I was there as well for “The Omen”. (Left it off my list above.) That was summer 1976. My most memorable viewing experiences was in 1981, for John Water’s “Polyester”. Not only did we love the film, afterwards everybody else dropped or discarded their Odorama cards. Naturally, we were all “Grab ‘em!” ! Still have my original one, and it still smells. The Commack RKO snack bar served hot dogs…which was a little odd for a walk-in (non Drive In) theatres at the time. I believe that Evel Knevel movie is in all “dollar” DVD bins now. dsslave; how come no mentions of the Haupaugge theater on here? That was my “Rocky Horror” theater in the late 1970’s. I saw “Spinal Tap” at the Commack RKO. The Rockville Centre RKO Twin was a squat version of the Commack. I was there once a few years ago.
I remember sitting at the OLD Candlelight diner as a child in 1971 and looking out the window to see EVEL KNEVEL playing at RKO. My father took my family to see it right after. I remember every movie i’ve seen there. From “Westworld” to “The Omen” to “Star Wars” to “All That Jazz” to “Sign of the Times”. I actually have a recording of the outgoing answering message of RKO Commack from 1980 when “Blue Lagoon” and “Empire Strikes Back” was playing AND they were doing separate admission midnight shows of “WIZARDS” and “LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT”
Thats about when i think it closed 87 or 88 ……
Movies I have seen at the Commack RKO Twin: Beast of Blood,Taste the Blood of Dracula, Spinal Tap, Angel Heart, Mel Brook’s Silent Movie, King Kong , King Kong Lives, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, When A Stranger Calls. Wow, that’s some time span! I did submit pix of the Commack RKO to this site and hope they will post them with the listing. I believe the theater closed in the late 1980’s? Didn’t everything leave us then?
I started going here in the early 1970’s. I think the first one I saw was “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.” My father dropped me off, and I went in alone. Excellent!
i do not have a pic of this theater……..strange as it was one of my all time best theater……
Hey longislandmovies…do you have ANY more pictures of movie theaters in Commack? You were kind enough to post a 1973 RKO pic that was amazing! Any more???
thanks
David
location,well booked,loyal patrons…we ran 2 boxoffices for a twin.. i ran shows very tight because they would all sell out……
Theater was in front of ua drive in
Was it the location longislandmovies? What was near it?
No one can imagine the bsns this theater did……just amazing…..
In 1968 it was new
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The Candlelight Diner is still there, believe it or not, and still always busy. I can only imagine what kind of business they did when the RKO was open.
go to the link above . only pic as of now
hey guys,
anyone have pictures of RKO or Commack drive in or candlelight diner from the 70’s??? I would love them!!!!
thanks
David
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hey guys,
anyone have pictures of RKO or Commack drive in or candlelight diner from the 70’s??? I would love them!!!!
thanks
David
Candlelight was were all the theatre people went to so many great times .
I forgot-
Sometimes we would eat at the Candlelight before going to catch the show at the Twin. It was great having everything so close together for us teens who couldn’t yet afford car insurance!
I saw my first R rated feature, “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” at the Commack Twin in 1979 when I was 16. Used to live in the Fairfield Garden Apartments across the back parking lot behind “The Stores”, as we local apartment teens used to call the Korvette’s strip mall hang out. When we weren’t there, we were practically living in the Twin (or watching a free movie through the fence of the Drive-In!).
Besides “Life of Brian”, also saw everything from “Humanoids From the Deep” (which I got dragged to) to “The Empire Strikes Back” (we went to the Twin to see that about 15 times that summer of 1980) to “Death Hunt” (with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson) to “Porky’s” to “Stripes” to “Das Boot” at the RKO Twin. Great memories. I’m sorry the theater is gone.
Anybody else there during the late ‘70’s early 80’s era?