AMC Fresh Meadows 7
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
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From what I counted on the Fandango and AMC apps for the seating, here is what I got: Theatre #1: 62; Theatre #2: 74; Theatre #3: 84; Theatre #4 (IMAX at AMC,): 127; Theatre #5: 98; Theatre #6: 106; Theatre #7: 101. Total: 652
Please update, became a twin on March 16, 1979. Grand opening ad in photos section
add previous operator RKO Century Warner
Uploaded cover from Box Office Magazine showing the opening of Century’s Meadows as the lead story.
The seat reduction was in either 2013 or 2014, that was one of AMC Recliner theatres.
2,200 for a single screen theater built on Long Island after World War II was a big thing. A number of Hollywood stars were there for the opening. I remember seeing the newsreel of the opening that Century showed in it’s theaters after the event.
Even with its original 2,200 seats, it was hardly “giant” sized or even a “movie palace” in the sense of grandiose cinemas built in the 1920s into the early 1930s. And the free parking facilities were shared with the entire shopping complex, and not restricted to theatre patrons.
Far cry from the 2,200 it started life with.
Seating capacity 1. 62 2. 74 3. 84 4. 123 (IMAX) 5. 94 6. 100 7. 96 Total seats 633 Please update total seat count
The largest single-screen cinema built in the NYC borough of Queens after the end of WW2 will be 70 years old in November of this year. Many photos taken by patrons of the current multiplex can be viewed here
Please update, Went to 7 screens on May 27, 1988 under Cineplex Odeon. AMC added recliners a few years ago and the only IMAX theatre that not stadium seating.
I was General Manager for the Cineplex Odeon multiplex re-opening in 1988. Ex-manager Edward Bernhardt, who refused to run a multiplex version of the theatre, became my assistant, bedrock, co-conspirator and best friend.
Look at this, Eddie!
Comfortably Cool- unfortunately the link works for me. I remember when it was first open. A beautiful place. Now it’s the same crap that everybody else has.
OK, so I’ll try a different browser
It takes me to a page that has multiple views of the interior and exterior of the theater — no problem.
The link takes me to a Google maps page that allows the user to report content violations. It does, however, have one picture of the lobby…
Numerous exterior and interior views of the current multiplex can be found here
Johnfromthe80s- also still around are the Main Street Playhouse and the Bombay (formerly Mayfair).
DARCYDT noticed that already when i was browsing showtimes for Endgame on fandango.
This place has been around for ages, other than Movieworld its probably the only theater in the area that is still there. I remember it used to a two screen theater. Saw Raiders of the Lost Ark here and Young Sherlock Holmes, then later on it became a multiplex, then went another renovation in the 2000s, and a few years ago went yet another renovation.
Screen 4 is being converted to Imax
RobertR That’s the new standard marquee for all AMC locations after there upgraded. the yellow circle patterned metal plates is what there putting up to cover up the old “flex” sign spaces on the older locations generally to mount the new AMC signage all locations are getting under the new Branding push AMC is doing. having the showing films up on the entrance has been downplayed by internet listings most of my local theaters removed the Auditorium numbers and have the sign give the theater site to get showtimes. the theater was also renamed again to AMC Fresh Meadows 7 as the AMC Loews nameing is being phased out.
Regular shows starting before noon are $8.99, but there aren’t too many that start before noon…
Now $16.49 in the afternoons and $17.99 at night. With 3D figure $20.49 in afternoon and $21.99 at night, ridiculous.
My family moved from Manhattan to Fresh Meadows in 1950 so this became our local theater. My first date with a girl was to the Meadows and I saw my first 3-D film there… Bwana Devil! Seeing my first 3-D there was very important in my life as 3-D has been my career for the past 40 years now. (I directed three 3-D music videos for the Rolling Stones and now teach Stereoscopic 3-D to grad students.)
I only remember the Meadows as one large theater, the concept of breaking up a theater did not exist then.
The quality of 3-D projection in the 50’s was awful. The poster before me, theatrefan, spoke up for the beauty of actual film over digital. This may be true for normal 2-D movies but, for 3-D, digital is so very superior that is might be highly irresponsible to show 3-D from film today.
There was a Horn & Hardart cafeteria diagonally facing the theater’s entrance and that was part of the experience. Also a large Bloomingdales was right nearby. I wonder what those are now? Maybe a trip is in order. I learned to ride a bike in a Fresh Meadows parking lot, and, a few years later, to drive a car in that same lot!
By the way, I discovered this site just last week and I posted some other memories under Carnegie Hall Cinema.