Oyster Bay Theatre

Loaded the postcard image of the Lyric to which Dooley Jones referred. I dispute the contention that the Lyric burnt down. As I recall from my youth the building in the picture was the same albeit with the addition of a vertical. It now houses offices of the Town of Oyster Bay.

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HERE’S A PICTURE OF THE LYRIC THEATRE circa 1905.It was located in downtown Oyster Bay. President Teddy Roosevelt whose Summer White House was in Oyster Bay use to give speeches from its stage.

The proof that the Lyric was laterly known as the Oyster Bay is on the Deer Park Theatre site where someone has linked an ad for the opening of the Deer Park. In the next column is the Oyster Bay (on Audrey Avenue).

I remember the Oyster Bay Theatre where I paid 25 cents to see House on the Haunted Hill, and, I rember very well the Pine Hollow Theatre where I was employed beginning August of 1966, my first job. I worked on the very first reserved seat engagement of “The Blue Max” starring George Peppard and Ursla Andress. I became the manager of the Pine Hollow when I was 17 years old. I have very fond memories and I have photos, although I don’t know where to put my hands on them at the moment. The Pine Hollow Theatre was in the same building that is now the BMW dealership. Many of Oyster Bay’s alumini worked along side of me at that theatre and we had lots of good times. It is sad that the town nolonger has a movie theatre. I ran across this site today by accident while I was searching for a 1966 graduate of Saint Dominic’s who used to be a good friend of mine and who also worked with me at the Pine Hollow. This was a pleasant surprise on a dreary day.
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The photo of the Lyric Theater was also known as the Oyster Bay Theater, not the Pine Hollow Theater where BMW of Oyster Bay is now. The building in the photo of the Lyric Theater/Oyster Bay Theater currently is an annex to the Oyster Bay Town Hall.

Perhaps your elusive Pine Hollow theatre had undergone name changes thru the years. I have found a listing for a Pine Hollow Theatre listed at 145 Pine Hollow Road. At this same address I find a Movies Theatre. Could the Pine Hollow and the Movies Theatre be one in the same? That is all the information I have right now.

I’d like to follow up on the comment of Nova, Oct 3. As a kid in Queens NY, 1967, I went several times to the Midway Theater to see the latest James Bond Film over and over again. At each show there was a trailer for the big prestige flick at the time, “The Sand Pebbles”, and after the trailer a still ad was projected on the screen saying the the film’s exclusive reserved-seat Long Island engagement was at — I think — The Pine Hollow Theater — and I think it’s location was listed as Oyster Bay. As a child in a congested Queens neighborhood who saw snatches of suburbia on rare trips to Jones Beach, the trailer and ad got me day-dreaming at odd moments about what a big, luxurious theater this Pine Hollow must be, and how fine life would be in this Oyster Bay.

This was one of those odd kid fantasies that keeps coming to mind every now and then, and when I discovered the Cinema Treasures web site I thought I could finally attach a concrete image to the fantasy. I was surprised that there was no Pine Hollow Theater listed on the site — and none found in a Google search. I figured that my 1967 memory had simply become blurred. After all, someone would have remembered a theater big and important enough to host road show engagements of important films. But now Nova too has a memory of a Pine Hollow theater. Can anyone enlighten us?!