I saw Blue Velvet there….the seediness of the theather actually complmented the movie! You remember….one light in the ceiling working…smelly seats (if u could even find one that was not broken), sticky as hell floors!!!!
Just to correct every one (grin)…..Pequa theater became and still is an Infiniti Dealership. I saw Rain Man on the last night of operation unbeknownst to me at the time. The next day the marquee read “CLOSED”. I dont recall the MASH reference on the marquee. I distinctly remember observing that the theater that night was quite messy (popcorn and garbage all over the place). The theater had always been well kept up until that point. I realized why the next day!! I will never forget when I was a kid my friends father rented out Pequa theater for his birthday and we saw the Poseidon Adventure. I will never forget that feeling as a kid having the theater all to ourselves…there had to be less than 20 of us. I also saw Battlestar Galactica there in SENSAROUND!!! They marketed the TV pilot as a feature film.
To answer your question from a year ago Robert R, the Jerry Lewis Twin in Massapequa became a Rae Twin Cinema before it finally closed. The last movie to play there was Love at First Bite. I remeber that distinctly because after the theater closed the movie title was on the marquee for a while as the property sat vacant. The building is now a Harrows. I saw GREASE there with my sister when I was 13. Wow that took me back! Wat a great time to be a kid!
I saw Blue Velvet there….the seediness of the theather actually complmented the movie! You remember….one light in the ceiling working…smelly seats (if u could even find one that was not broken), sticky as hell floors!!!!
Just to correct every one (grin)…..Pequa theater became and still is an Infiniti Dealership. I saw Rain Man on the last night of operation unbeknownst to me at the time. The next day the marquee read “CLOSED”. I dont recall the MASH reference on the marquee. I distinctly remember observing that the theater that night was quite messy (popcorn and garbage all over the place). The theater had always been well kept up until that point. I realized why the next day!! I will never forget when I was a kid my friends father rented out Pequa theater for his birthday and we saw the Poseidon Adventure. I will never forget that feeling as a kid having the theater all to ourselves…there had to be less than 20 of us. I also saw Battlestar Galactica there in SENSAROUND!!! They marketed the TV pilot as a feature film.
To answer your question from a year ago Robert R, the Jerry Lewis Twin in Massapequa became a Rae Twin Cinema before it finally closed. The last movie to play there was Love at First Bite. I remeber that distinctly because after the theater closed the movie title was on the marquee for a while as the property sat vacant. The building is now a Harrows. I saw GREASE there with my sister when I was 13. Wow that took me back! Wat a great time to be a kid!