I just stumbled onto this website today. I never knew it existed. I worked for National Amusements from 2006 until last Nov. Actually the person who posts on here as “Vito” is my old managing director and the man who hired me. So, hi Mr. P. How you doing? Now that I’ve got that out of the way… Definitely the best times I had was while managing the Amboy Multiplex. Since leaving last November, I have fallen out of the loop and was searching around online trying to see if there where any new developments with the theater I loved.
After reading this page, I figured I would give you my first hand account of what happened the day Amboy closed its doors for good. As stated earlier, I was a manager at the Amboy multiplex. In fact, I was one of the two managers that got the call to close the theater. I was the one who locked the doors for the final time at The Amboy Multiplex. It was a very sad day for me. Not only was the theater that I went to as a kid closing, where I had countless memories, but also my current place of work was closing too. I didn’t know what it meant. I’m not going to lie; I was worried about my job.
There are so many stories I could tell you about Amboy. It’s been over 2 years but I’ll try to get some facts straight that I can remember. When the theater opened, it started out as a 6- plex. It later grew to 9, I think, and then later 12. Then theaters 9 and 10 (at the time) were divided in half to make the theater a 14-plex. Theater 9 became 9 and 10 and the then theater 10 became theaters 11 and 12. I must admit watching a movie in those 4 theaters wasn’t that much fun. The screen went from wall to wall. If you were in the back, it made the screen look so small. Theater 7 could run 70 MM film. The projector could run either 35 or 70. That was a pain to thread. There were rumors that theater 14 was haunted. I never did see anything, however, the project every once and a while would just start up on its own. Up until the day it closed, Amboy still used pin board automation. That too was also a pain. The last movie ever played at Amboy was Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. So that means ironically, the first movie ever played was the first movie in the Star Trek series and the last movie ever played was the last movie in the Star Wars saga. This theater most resembled the Saw Mill Multiplex in Hawthorne, NY. While Saw Mill is the closest, most National Amusement built theaters had the same lay out. Amboy’s shape, however, was very unique. I never worked at another theater that looked like Amboy.
That’s really all I can think of right now. I’ll post something new if I remember anything.
I just stumbled onto this website today. I never knew it existed. I worked for National Amusements from 2006 until last Nov. Actually the person who posts on here as “Vito” is my old managing director and the man who hired me. So, hi Mr. P. How you doing? Now that I’ve got that out of the way… Definitely the best times I had was while managing the Amboy Multiplex. Since leaving last November, I have fallen out of the loop and was searching around online trying to see if there where any new developments with the theater I loved.
After reading this page, I figured I would give you my first hand account of what happened the day Amboy closed its doors for good. As stated earlier, I was a manager at the Amboy multiplex. In fact, I was one of the two managers that got the call to close the theater. I was the one who locked the doors for the final time at The Amboy Multiplex. It was a very sad day for me. Not only was the theater that I went to as a kid closing, where I had countless memories, but also my current place of work was closing too. I didn’t know what it meant. I’m not going to lie; I was worried about my job.
There are so many stories I could tell you about Amboy. It’s been over 2 years but I’ll try to get some facts straight that I can remember. When the theater opened, it started out as a 6- plex. It later grew to 9, I think, and then later 12. Then theaters 9 and 10 (at the time) were divided in half to make the theater a 14-plex. Theater 9 became 9 and 10 and the then theater 10 became theaters 11 and 12. I must admit watching a movie in those 4 theaters wasn’t that much fun. The screen went from wall to wall. If you were in the back, it made the screen look so small. Theater 7 could run 70 MM film. The projector could run either 35 or 70. That was a pain to thread. There were rumors that theater 14 was haunted. I never did see anything, however, the project every once and a while would just start up on its own. Up until the day it closed, Amboy still used pin board automation. That too was also a pain. The last movie ever played at Amboy was Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. So that means ironically, the first movie ever played was the first movie in the Star Trek series and the last movie ever played was the last movie in the Star Wars saga. This theater most resembled the Saw Mill Multiplex in Hawthorne, NY. While Saw Mill is the closest, most National Amusement built theaters had the same lay out. Amboy’s shape, however, was very unique. I never worked at another theater that looked like Amboy.
That’s really all I can think of right now. I’ll post something new if I remember anything.