Thank you all for your comments. I’m from Denmark and was in New York back in 1986 and again two years later, where I sadly noticed, that the State was gone. In 1986 I went to see “Knights of the city” in State 1. After the film was finisged, I tried to exit the door, but somehow it was closed, and I ended upstairs in the grand foyer to State 2. Here I could see, the horrorflick “House” was just going to start. As a curious teenager alone one afternoon without parents, I stayed and was amazed by the cinema-structure. Here in Denmark we have the magnificent Imperial with 1,102 seats – originally 1,521 from 1961-87, but ever since 1986 I wondered how State was originally build and later twinned. Thank you for giving me all this information!
When I visited in summer 1988 there was only a big hole in the ground.
Thank you all for your comments. I’m from Denmark and was in New York back in 1986 and again two years later, where I sadly noticed, that the State was gone. In 1986 I went to see “Knights of the city” in State 1. After the film was finisged, I tried to exit the door, but somehow it was closed, and I ended upstairs in the grand foyer to State 2. Here I could see, the horrorflick “House” was just going to start. As a curious teenager alone one afternoon without parents, I stayed and was amazed by the cinema-structure. Here in Denmark we have the magnificent Imperial with 1,102 seats – originally 1,521 from 1961-87, but ever since 1986 I wondered how State was originally build and later twinned. Thank you for giving me all this information!