Comments about Rockville Centre Cinema in Rockville Centre, NY

br91975 on July 15, 2005 at 7:28 am

I’d have to think this theatre isn’t long for the world after (or if) the Loews-AMC merger is approved.

ear31 on July 15, 2005 at 7:04 am

I have always been intimidated by the bathrooms . I have to make my boyfriend stand outside while I go, because I always have this eerie feeling.
I also have seen a funny listing on the side of the marquee as ‘cinemaniac’.Mine was “dead , man ,boy” referring to of course(land of teh dead, cinderella man, sharkboy lava girl).
Thanks for the always wondered information about this theatre.

biggeral on June 3, 2005 at 6:51 am

I worked at the theatre during the mid 70’s and I loved climbing the ladder sticking out onto Sunrise Highway and changing the marquee. We would get paid for two hours worth of work to do the marquee regardless of how long it took to do it. Climbing up during a sleet storm wasn’t very fun but back then movies hung around for a lot longer than they do now and we didn’t have to do it that often. The movies used to change on Wednesday so I’d be up on the ladder on Tuesday night. My teachers at school would always give me grief on Wednesday morning if I didn’t have my homework done because they had seen me up on the ladder the night before.

DonRosen on March 14, 2005 at 4:54 am

I remember seeing the “orange” marquee going through Rockville Centre on the LIRR. I’ve never seen an orange marquee since.

Mike (saps) on March 1, 2005 at 6:00 am

Well, I live here and they show mostly horror, action and move-overs. The past few weeks have been move-overs. A-pics go to Fantasy. When a new pic opens here I know it’s flawed in some way.

Michael Furlinger on February 28, 2005 at 5:28 pm

this should be listed as RKO ,,

Michael Furlinger on February 28, 2005 at 4:13 pm

Never a b picture house always big boxoffice # s ……..Still open as a twin tells you something.

Mike (saps) on January 7, 2005 at 3:30 pm

Long and narrow, but if the projector light is bright enough it’s OK for a move-over from the Fantasy or for a new B-pictue.

cinemaniac on January 7, 2005 at 3:24 pm

Yeah, I passed by that theatre one time about two weeks ago (that was actually Christmas Eve). On the way home from visiting our Grandma, we saw the huge marquee, and on the side it said “Finding Polar Treasure”, which brought on a nice little laugh. Anyway, I’ve never been inside this theatre, but I’ve seen it a good number of times, complete with the old “Cineplex Odeon” logo intact.

Michael Furlinger on November 23, 2004 at 9:10 pm

One of the last RKO THEATERS STILL RUNNING

Michael Furlinger on November 8, 2004 at 8:34 pm

I hope this is not a code for no good……lol

Michael Furlinger on November 7, 2004 at 7:06 pm

I wish it was in English..

Ivan on November 7, 2004 at 2:13 pm

Michael Furlinger on November 7, 2004 at 7:15 am

THERE SHOULD BE A NAME CHANGE To RKO ROCKVILLE CENTRE TWIN . hAS ALWAYS BEEN CALLED THIS..

Ivan on November 6, 2004 at 6:20 pm

Michael Furlinger on November 6, 2004 at 4:32 pm

I was dm in 1985 for this theater

Michael Furlinger on November 6, 2004 at 4:32 pm

i do remember the colors all RKO auditoriums (twins ) were red and blue.

chconnol on November 5, 2004 at 8:13 am

With the wall: what year would that be? I’m talking from about 1973 until the early 80’s. I remember this so well that you could walk throughout either the Blue area or the Red.

Do you remember the colors?

RobertR on November 5, 2004 at 7:31 am

I remember the wall.

Michael Furlinger on November 5, 2004 at 7:20 am

At one time this theater had a wall down the center of the lobby when i was dm for this house i remember V.Graham the mgr of many years telling me that story.

chconnol on November 5, 2004 at 7:02 am

The main comment above from Robert R. is incorrect.

The theaters were divided but the lobby was open. You could, if you wanted to, walk in the lobby to the “other side”. It was just one lobby.

The gimmick was that one theater was blue and the other was red. When you entered into the lobby, if you were going to see a movie in the red theater, you entered on that side. Everything the lobby (the walls, carpet) were red. Then about halfway across the lobby, it would turn blue. The deocorations (curtains, carpet) exactly the same except they were blue. Even downstairs where the bathrooms were, it was the same. There was a set of stairs on either side of the lobby to go down there. And downstairs the red vs. blue motif continued. When I was a kid, if I was seeing a movie in the red area, I thought you might get in trouble if you “dared” to go over into the Blue zone.

This theater was a Times Square Store (remember these fellow Long Islanders?) until around 1968.

Saw a lot of movies here.

Michael Furlinger on October 24, 2004 at 9:10 am

The bank is the landlord so they never wanted the theater to take its parking.

RobertR on October 24, 2004 at 7:57 am

Thats interesting about the lease, I always used to wonder why this was never open for matinees in the summer when they had big movies.

Michael Furlinger on August 20, 2004 at 10:05 pm

This was one of rko busyest twins on long island the theater is the last rko twin still open(now loews cineplex)The theater has an odd lease were it can never open matinee except sat ,sun and legal holidays.AN UGLY TWIN BAD SEATS BUT ALWAYS DID GREAT BSNS.

Rockville Centre Cinema

340 Sunrise Highway, Rockville Centre, NY 11570

340 Sunrise Highway,
Rockville Centre, NY 11570