Meredith Rhule I remember the guy, he was very nice and helped out alot when needed. His booth was a sight to see he had some very cool posters and action figures from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s b-horror flicks era. I remember towards the end of my stay there they had him take some stuff down cause it was inappropriate. I wonder if he still works there.
I never liked working at this theatre. We had several complaints about an odor and the ripped carpeting and the kids that came out on Friday night (we use to call Friday night “fight night” and would place bets about when, where and who would fight). The odor has been a mystery, we tried everything from deodorizers, changing the air filters more frequently to keeping the AC on all night in certain theaters (worst ones) to keep air circulating. Nothing worked (temp at best). As for the remodel it has been put on hold for another year due to poor sales last year. It is scheduled to be a delux like the one in holtsville one day.
I worked there for a few years. It is a nice quiet theater that the older crowds go to. Most who go there would rather die than goto the theater next door (Sunrise). They did cut back alot to keep it running. There is a p/t projectionist who works Thursday and Sunday. A maintance person from Sunrise comes around once a week to do maintance. 2 managers that work opposite shifts. Only 15 employees. The upstairs stand was only open once on Christmas day in the 3 years I was there.
We did show silver screen movies (like someone posted above) sometimes they are in good condition and other times they are horrible. The film gets moved alot from theater to theater (NA does this with most of their theatres). The ratio is off with the older films but I use to just center it as best as possible and no one would complain (why would they, they only pay a dollar and get a small bag of popcorn, drink and 2 cookies for free).
I heard rumors while I was there that next year it will close. The lease with NA expires at the end of the year as well as the union contract with the projectionist. The only reason that theater was kept open for so long was becasue of the lease and NA was afraid another theater chain would come in and fix it up and give Sunrise competition (also an NA theater). But I heard that some retail stores are looking at the property and I don’t Green Acres Mall wouldn’t mind getting a big retail chain there. The theater did some business but 95% of the time most auds. would have between 0-10 people per show. The only time I was there and it was packed was Memorial Day weekend two years ago when Shrek 2, Day After Tomorrow were there. That theater was slow but when it was crowed it was packed. Only because we couldn’t handle large crowds.
I don’t work there anymore, threats of closing and getting married made me find a steadier job. The hours were bad and working holidays and getting phone calls from your family wishing you a happy holiday while you worked sucked.
Meredith Rhule I remember the guy, he was very nice and helped out alot when needed. His booth was a sight to see he had some very cool posters and action figures from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s b-horror flicks era. I remember towards the end of my stay there they had him take some stuff down cause it was inappropriate. I wonder if he still works there.
I never liked working at this theatre. We had several complaints about an odor and the ripped carpeting and the kids that came out on Friday night (we use to call Friday night “fight night” and would place bets about when, where and who would fight). The odor has been a mystery, we tried everything from deodorizers, changing the air filters more frequently to keeping the AC on all night in certain theaters (worst ones) to keep air circulating. Nothing worked (temp at best). As for the remodel it has been put on hold for another year due to poor sales last year. It is scheduled to be a delux like the one in holtsville one day.
I worked there for a few years. It is a nice quiet theater that the older crowds go to. Most who go there would rather die than goto the theater next door (Sunrise). They did cut back alot to keep it running. There is a p/t projectionist who works Thursday and Sunday. A maintance person from Sunrise comes around once a week to do maintance. 2 managers that work opposite shifts. Only 15 employees. The upstairs stand was only open once on Christmas day in the 3 years I was there.
We did show silver screen movies (like someone posted above) sometimes they are in good condition and other times they are horrible. The film gets moved alot from theater to theater (NA does this with most of their theatres). The ratio is off with the older films but I use to just center it as best as possible and no one would complain (why would they, they only pay a dollar and get a small bag of popcorn, drink and 2 cookies for free).
I heard rumors while I was there that next year it will close. The lease with NA expires at the end of the year as well as the union contract with the projectionist. The only reason that theater was kept open for so long was becasue of the lease and NA was afraid another theater chain would come in and fix it up and give Sunrise competition (also an NA theater). But I heard that some retail stores are looking at the property and I don’t Green Acres Mall wouldn’t mind getting a big retail chain there. The theater did some business but 95% of the time most auds. would have between 0-10 people per show. The only time I was there and it was packed was Memorial Day weekend two years ago when Shrek 2, Day After Tomorrow were there. That theater was slow but when it was crowed it was packed. Only because we couldn’t handle large crowds.
I don’t work there anymore, threats of closing and getting married made me find a steadier job. The hours were bad and working holidays and getting phone calls from your family wishing you a happy holiday while you worked sucked.