Monday, September 12, 2022

The last picture show on Main Street.

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Queens Chronicle 

 When Kew Gardens Hills resident Richard Reif first attended Main Street Cinemas back in 1946, a day at the picture show cost only 25 cents.

“You could spend the whole afternoon there, which me and my friends did,” he remembered fondly. “You got two feature films, a cartoon, a newsreel and an episode of a serial — and you could bring your own food.”

So it’s not difficult to imagine his disappointment when, after seeing Idris Elba’s latest film, “The Beast,” last weekend, he found out that would be the last movie he ever saw at the theatre, which closed its doors earlier this week.

It is rumored that the theater is closing due to a rent increase; however, the Chronicle was unable to confirm that, as owner Rudy Toolasprashad did not respond to multiple queries. City property records show that the lot — which includes the movie theater and all the stores between it and the corner of 72nd Drive — was purchased by G & Y Main Street Plaza LLC in February of this year. It is not clear whether the purchase has any connection to Main Street Cinemas’ shuttering.

Like all theaters, Main Street Cinemas had previously closed during the earliest days of the pandemic. Though many other small film venues across the country never reopened, Main Street Cinemas welcomed movie-goers back in March 2021.

“I thought then it would close for good, but it didn’t,” Reif said. “This summer you know, I went to movies like ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ and ‘Elvis’ and ‘Thor,’ and there were big turnouts — people of all ages, parents brought their kids for things like the Sonic Hedgehog movie. So that really surprised me that it’s closing.”

The institution has been a staple in the community since it opened in 1941, when it was called the The Main Street Playhouse. It played the starring role in the lives of many young people over the years.

 Queens Chronicle

“You could spend the whole afternoon there, which me and my friends did,” he remembered fondly. “You got two feature films, a cartoon, a newsreel and an episode of a serial — and you could bring your own food.”

So it’s not difficult to imagine his disappointment when, after seeing Idris Elba’s latest film, “The Beast,” last weekend, he found out that would be the last movie he ever saw at the theatre, which closed its doors earlier this week.

It is rumored that the theater is closing due to a rent increase; however, the Chronicle was unable to confirm that, as owner Rudy Toolasprashad did not respond to multiple queries. City property records show that the lot — which includes the movie theater and all the stores between it and the corner of 72nd Drive — was purchased by G & Y Main Street Plaza LLC in February of this year. It is not clear whether the purchase has any connection to Main Street Cinemas’ shuttering.

Like all theaters, Main Street Cinemas had previously closed during the earliest days of the pandemic. Though many other small film venues across the country never reopened, Main Street Cinemas welcomed movie-goers back in March 2021.

“I thought then it would close for good, but it didn’t,” Reif said. “This summer you know, I went to movies like ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ and ‘Elvis’ and ‘Thor,’ and there were big turnouts — people of all ages, parents brought their kids for things like the Sonic Hedgehog movie. So that really surprised me that it’s closing.”

The institution has been a staple in the community since it opened in 1941, when it was called the The Main Street Playhouse. It played the starring role in the lives of many young people over the years.

 

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

ACRIS shows that the paperwork is signed by SYD Sharon Yehoshua Darouvar as the Authorized Signatory

https://profiles.superlawyers.com/new-york/new-york/lawyer/sharon-yehoshua-darouvar/7ea3f6cc-debf-4746-a961-11987c367612.html

https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=2022022100419001

Anonymous said...

I'm sure this is all Joe Biden and the democrats fault.

Anonymous said...

Movies are for commies!

Ned said...

Shame, a whole culture, history, city and country erased in such record short time.
Cops de-funded, streets & sewers falling apart
This as the stupid governor Governor Hochul blows $9.5 Billion for an un-nessassary new terminal at JFK airport for immigrants and expensive shopping like that big EU gateway airport in Rome. Nothing 10 million suffering New Yorker's need or can afford to use. Nothing wrong with the current terminal, if the Europeans, Asians and Arabs from the other side the world don't like it F_ck em, they can stay home.
Why spend much needed NY infrastructure repair $$$ on others on some slob from Nigeria or millionaire from Singapore?
Hochul may as well call it Ellis Island East, this is an outrageous waste of funds intended to help our own issues.

$9.5 Billion could have fixed every problem sewer, road, firehouse and refunded the police in this city with money left over!! Put LEDs and upgrades on every bridge too. Vote to toss every one of these NWA socialist sons of bitches, bastards, wookies and clueless jackasses out in November. Remember if they get their way we will all be under cradle to grave socialism with the EU-NWA calling all the shots.
The only thing currently preventing this is guns in citizens hands, the Supreme Court and the US Constitution still in effect (somewhat) all currently behind the 8 Ball.
Take orders from some twit in Brussels, Germany or France? Putin doesn't even want such shit.

-Ned
www.nra.org.

Anonymous said...

Charlie doesn't go to movies.

Anonymous said...

Even the crosswords are propagandized.
Sad, very sad...

Anonymous said...

Today word in New York Shitty is "gloom" !

Anonymous said...

Is the Housing Market Going to Crash?

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