BAY SHORE THEATER DEMOLITION

To sad to look at. UA had let it (as well as many others in NYC) deterioate long before it closed when I worked for them in the mid 1970’s. They were operaters caring about cleanliness and then shrugging on money needed for repairs. To hide dirt they painted over it as in the Beverly, Brooklyn (circa 1975), the Playhouse and Squire in Great Neck, Farmingdale and Lindenhurst (when they had their fire they painted the ceiling black, original eggshell – auditorium walls baby blue, original color pastel green – teak wood base up to the height of the seats, white and no new seats the original red painted seats black to match the seat fabric (never changed after fire). They must have collected insurance but didn’t spend it on the fix-up. Even their quadded and triplexed theatre were done cheaply, you could hear noise from other auditoriums Ex, Manhasset, Babylon, South Hampton to name a few. Only the Syosset and the Cinema 150 were taken care of while I was there but Syosset’s triplex was awful and the Cinema D-150 was the place to see any film no matter good or poorly recieved films like Tron and Black Cauldron would be presented beautifully especially Tron. Tron did so bad that the $1.00 Century Morton Village got it in five weeks time. It did poor there too! It was way ahead of its time but a great film. Sorry I degressed, had to get it off my chest (and lost five pounds) Ha-Ha!