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guarina commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Apr 12, 2018 at 5:30 am

Thanks a lot, Al. I’ll use the Embassy then.

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guarina commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Apr 12, 2018 at 3:02 am

Al, But I still need what movie was playing at one of the three, Embassy, Regency or Lincoln Square if there was one. How do you find that?

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guarina commented about Costello Theatre on Apr 12, 2018 at 2:57 am

Al, the Lincoln 72nd Street was at 180 East 72nd Street. Thank you again. I need one on the West side, the Embassy 72nd Street on Broadway, the Regency on B'way & 67th or the Lincoln Square on B'way and 66th.

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guarina commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Apr 12, 2018 at 2:37 am

Al Alvarez, Thanks. Was there another theater functioning there in December of 1959, either at 1947 or at 1998, or anywhere at Lincoln Square?

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guarina commented about Costello Theatre on Apr 12, 2018 at 12:47 am

Al Alvarez, Ed Solero, I’m writing a novel set around West 72nd Street in 1959 and ‘60. Can you tell me what movie showed at the Loew’s Lincoln Square Friday, December 18, 1959? I said “Anatomy of a Murder”, but don’t really know. I published “Love Letters in the Sand”, where I mention another area of New York. Thanks a lot!

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guarina commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Apr 11, 2018 at 10:13 pm

I’m writing a novel set around West 72nd Street in 1959 and ‘60. Can anybody tell me what movie showed at the Loew’s Lincoln Square on Friday, December 18, 1959? I said “Anatomy of a Murder”, but don’t really know. I published “Love Letters in the Sand”, where I mention another area of New York. Thanks a lot!

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guarina commented about Cine Popular on Aug 19, 2015 at 6:45 pm

This theater was located at Calle 4 between 9 and 11, built in 1882.

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guarina commented about Cine Minerva on Aug 18, 2015 at 1:04 am

This theater in 1937 showed 20th Century Fox’s “El camino de la gloria” about World War I, directed by Howard Hawks, with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore.

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guarina commented about Cine-Teatro Juarez on Aug 11, 2015 at 5:23 am

This theater showed “El hombre que mató a Billy el Niño” with Peter Lee Lawrence and Fausto Tozzi, and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

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guarina commented about Cine Mayari on Jul 22, 2015 at 11:55 pm

The Teatro Presilla, the property of Demetrio Presilla, a Spanish national, was inaugurated in 1914. The cine Mayarí was located in the site where the Presilla had been. The government intervened it on August 16, 1963, started construction and by mid-1964 it was finished, in masonry painted light and dark gray bearing a flashing sign in red, blue and white.

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guarina commented about Cine-Teatro Rivoli on Jun 27, 2015 at 2:45 pm

The first movie shown in this theater in 1910 was the North American silent “La flor fatal”. Film reels arrived by rail. The manual projector was operated by Miguel Angel Oria. Others shown were “La esclava blanca”, “La posada sangrienta”. The manager of the Cine-Teatro Aldana was Mariano Belío. In 1928 it showed “La hija del Capitán Mambí”. Partners Fernández and Montaña sold it to Enrique Farah Awed. Renown business show figures performed, musician Dámaso Pérez Prado, singers Benny Moré, Pedrito Rico, Bobby Capó, Daniel Santos and the Matamoros Trio.

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guarina commented about Cine Sagua on Jun 22, 2015 at 5:47 pm

This theater first opened in 1873 as Teatro Uriarte, in baroque style, the property of Don Juan Uriarte, manager and Don Domingo Fabre, the orchestra conductor. Tradition claims it has had amazing acoustics because it was built over an ancient beach well or subterranean cave. It had two beautiful statues of Sappho playing the lyre at the entrance, spider candelabra, an enormous stage with a pit for big orchestras and attractive ample balconies. It was bought by the owners of the famous circus Santos y Artigas and its name changed. In 1922 it was bought by architect Luis Gálvez. The first projectionist was local photographer Pascual Pérez. A benefit was held for octogenarian primary teacher Don Alejandro Miramón Casanovas. During the hurricane of 1933, Pedro “el Gallego” Castany’s wife, whose company was performing at the theater, gave birth to a baby girl.

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guarina commented about Cine Tana on Jun 19, 2015 at 2:59 pm

This theater opened with the name Balboa in 1921 in the Central Elia Sugar Mill in the municipal term of Guáimaro. In 1924 the Elia theater was created, which was completely destroyed in an accident in the late ‘40’s, and in 1928 the Cine Dora opened. The Cine Unión was opened on February 3, 1948, with 642 seats; the first projectionist was Eduardo Pérez. In 1982 it was re-named Tana. The town was the Central Elia, built in 1915, the property of Compañía Azucarera Elia, on land owned by Elia Rosa Castellanos, founded on February 28, 1916; on October 13, 1961 it was renamed Colombia.

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guarina commented about Cine Delicias on Jun 15, 2015 at 9:46 pm

This theater was founded by partners Alberto Campaña, Juan Sánchez and Justo Rodríguez, the property of Agapito Gómez and Bros.

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guarina commented about Rex Cinema on Jun 11, 2015 at 8:29 pm

Cinema Rex opened in 1938. It was located between Consulado and Industria streets. It showed short-length films, newsreels, Cuban “América”, North-American Warner-Pathé, Spanish “No-Do”, a Walt Disney cartoon, and a documentary or a comedy skit. A well-mannered older formal usher at the lobby before the navy blue velvet drapes usually announced, “A short while standing” to the new arriving moviegoers who would wait for the next showing. I saw “The movie pest” there and many a sprightly Donald Duck cartoon.

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guarina commented about Teatro Brunet on Jun 11, 2015 at 3:49 am

The theater takes its name from Count Nicolás de la Cruz Brunet y Muñoz. It was bought by Don Justo Germán Cantero in 1849 for 17,000 pesos.

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guarina commented about Cine Huambo on Jun 8, 2015 at 3:43 pm

There are a series of about 7 connected theaters in the area of Guantanamo named Huambo after a province in Angola, dedicated to the promotion of African cinema.

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guarina commented about Cine Suarez on Jun 6, 2015 at 10:55 pm

Aquilino Larrea, a renown local business man who owned a match factory, ceded the land at 251st Avenue and 150th Street to the brothers Manolo and Ramón Suárez, who inaugurated the theater in 1946. The theater showed movies and was rented for live stage plays, musical revues, beauty pageants and meetings of the Syndicate of Workers and Employees of Textilera Ariguanabo.

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guarina commented about Cine Yarua on Jun 6, 2015 at 10:17 pm

A country festival was advertised in the Atenas website at the theater on Tuesday afternoon, May 17, 2011 at 2:00 for Farmer’s day.

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guarina commented about Cine Yarua on Jun 6, 2015 at 10:16 pm

The small town of Cabezas in the province of Matanzas had a population of 3,677 and 707 houses, but it had its movie theater. Yarua is a tree.

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guarina commented about Camp Bulkeley Lyceum on Jun 6, 2015 at 2:27 pm

Camp Bulkeley was built between 1943 and 1945, originally to house Marines. It was later named for Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley.

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guarina commented about Cine Yaracuy on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:34 pm

Yaracuy is a state in Venezuela, to the west of Carabobo.

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guarina commented about Cine La Yaya on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:17 pm

La Yaya is a hill near the town.

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guarina commented about Cine Cucalambe on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:12 pm

The theater was named after composer Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, nicknamed “Cucalambé”.

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guarina commented about Cine Bayamo on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:06 pm

Bayamo is called “Monument City”. The national anthem was composed there on October 20, 1868