Exploring an Abandoned 1990's Movie Theater with Power !
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Bring your popcorn as today we are going to the movies, but unfortunately no shows are playing at this time. Instead we step inside this Retro Movie Theater abandoned in 2019. With power left on, we are free to walk around this abandoned nostalgia wasteland from the past. Its been years since I've been to the movies and sadly I cannot say when I will be returning due to global shutdowns. Places like this bring back fond childhood memories, seeing a place that echoed laughter and taught many people life lessons through cinema lies dusty and decrepit, a counter opposite of what it was like in its heyday. If you happen to enjoy the video, a thumbs up would be greatly appreciated to support my work to uncover and film what is left abandoned, and Subscribe for more videos if you please. Have a good day and stay safe.
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This explore was a fun one, going to a movie theater has such a nostalgic feeling. Make sure to stay til the end to see the awesome projectors left behind !
Also,
When's the last time you went to the movies? and what was the film?
End of 2019. Doctor Sleep.
Mid 2019. Shazam
Dead Silence back in 2007. I remember I didn't like direction that horror films were going at the time which is one of the reasons why I've stopped going to the theaters.
Hi Dark Explorations! The last time I went to a movie theater was either 2004 or 03. There was a widow I worked with at the x.she had every Wend off if I was off we would go to this huge mall in south Florida. We shop eat & then watch a movie.i now live East TN & I no longer work because I'm on disability due to my illness.i want to say the movie we saw we didn't want to but it was the only chose we had was I think the name was boogie man with the guy from Seventh HEAVEN . I remember in the 1980s in my birth state of Vermont there was still drive in theater.my brother would take my sister & me.i remember watching Rambo & Crocodile Dundee.My 1st ever movie in a theater was the movie with the black man singing blue bird on my shoulder. I'm no longer into going into a crowd even before the covid.people are nasty & rude. I walk with a cane & people would push me. I prefer going for rides & exploring new places .as a child I grew up on a dairy farm & my dad would make time to go for rides.we would sometimes pick up my grandfather & go. If we asked where were going he would tell us where the car takes us.sometimes we would find ourselves in NH in some place with nothing but fields & 1 weird place to eat.my dad loved spending time with us & making memories. afterwards before going home( always we had to be home by 4 to take care/milk the cows) we would get ice cream.thank u for helping me remember the good x's. I hope u have a great day as well & stay safe 🙂😊🏚📽🎞🎬
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Those Neon signs need to be salvaged. Those are history.
I would buy them and put them in the home theater that I would then build...
I want the Warner Bros sign
I know i was just about to say surprised they werent stripped down, those signs are vintage by now. Unique and original items like these are no longer made unless probably commissioned or something.
They should auction them off.
Not to mention that 20th Century Fox will be Vintage soon since they where thinking or don't know if changed FOX out of logo.
Just imagine all the great movies that played on those screens.
Right, all the classics
Shrek and Shrek 2
Lion King, Toy Story, Rugrats The Movie, Aladdin, Pokémon The First Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Mrs. Doubtfire, Cableguy Ace Ventura 1 and 2
Not sure! Stadium seating 1990-2010+ (Lounge seating started after 2015). Many popcorn blockbuster movies in 1990-2005 with James Cameron Terminator 2 to Titanic or Batman last 3 or all 4 of 4, Forest Gump, etc (like he mentioned in video where George Lucas' Revenge Of The Sith was summer 2005 Star Wars final Prequels show)!
I feel like people need to buy these properties and restore them in a way and salvage as much history as they can. That would be dope. Open them up again.
@Merraine there was a bank in Pasadena (Texas) that was like a landmark for Pasadena. It was a massive building and had beautiful architecture and an incredible interior, a piece of history for us and it’s been abandoned for years and years due to a health concern I forgot what exactly it was I think they used a material to build it that was found out to cause cancer. But anyway many many people wanted it restored because it was definitly doable but ultimately about 2 years ago it was demolished.
That would be awesome to do that, before the place deteriorates too much further! Problem is that thanks to the lockdowns, people have gotten so used to just streaming movies and watching them at home. So who knows if there will ever be as much need for these multiplex cinemas. Tragic but true, at least somewhat.
I would totally go to a restored vintage '90s movie theater like this, it would be cool if they had at least one room dedicated to playing movies from that time period while obviously having the rest playing the usual modern new releases.
@@lowccperformance4059 probably asbestos
@@BrackishWaterC yeah it was
Movies will never look or sound the same at home as it does at the theater. Nothing can compare period.
Ikr! That’s why I miss going to the movies so much. I hope we can return to normal soon
Facts I hate ppl that say ughh I got a 60 inch TV and a fucking surround sound. Compare 60 inches to a giant fucking wall of a screen. They sound stupid asf. Avatar wouldn’t be Avatar without the theatre experience. Same with the avengers and all big movies. No theaters means no more big budget movies
@@alazkaalazka6087I will not watch Avatar 2 unless I’m in a theater
Ive got a 75 Inch and surround sound but nothing compares to the theater experience
@@alazkaalazka6087 those type of people have issues with just being around people period.
Imagine if there was a person in there clapping and laughing as if a movie was playing.
Wouldn't surprise me!
And you could see part of his flesh deteriorating, inferencing that he’s been there since the early 90s
You mean a g-g-ghost!?
It would be kinda creepy. Imagine exploring it with your friends and you hear someone in a abandoned auditorium.
And then once he noticed you were there, he walked up to you and said, I feel I have had a hair caught between my eyes and my glasses. I couldn’t get rid of it through the whole movie, I have been picking at it the whole day. As he is now face to face with you you look closer and realize it was no hair, it was a tick stuck to his eyeball! Enjoy the rest of the show!
Idk about anyone else but hearing him say "it's retro so it must be from the 90's" makes me feel ancient. SMH 😒
Same
I remember going to the drive-in. I'm ancient lol
I remember pay per veiw! Now that's old!
@@kryptism I remember putting a penny in between the buttons on your cable box to get the pay channels
@@bettymarler9999 I love those. They have made a comeback
I can smell the butter and musty carpet . I miss the 90s
You and me both buddy
Same here.
I miss last year when I could still go to a movie theater. 😔
@@taralucent1219 I can’t wait till we finally get to do that again.
I feel the sticky floor and the questionable black goop on the seats.
This is sad. Being a little kid walking into the movie theater was so special. All of the lights, popcorn, and movie posters. Just an unforgettable experience from my childhood.
I know what you mean.
Good thing there are still other theaters needing to be saved.
"I dont know how to get to the projector rooms."
Walks directly past blueprints of the building.
But before that "there's a single light coming from the projection room, we're gonna have to walk up there"
Yes we're going to HAVE to check out something potentially sketchy... this is why white people get fucked up in horror movies so much lmao
Lol!!!!!
lmao good point
like he knows how to read them? lol.
@@manlymcstud8588 its a blueprint not hieroglyphics.... people are pretty pathetic and helpless if they can't read what is essentially a map of a building lol
"Trying to find a way into the projector room" ......There's literally the blueprints on the main counter lol
I thought that.
that because he choose the easy mode, so he got blueprint on the main counter, it must be hidden in somewhere
LOL
Also. Locked part of the vault, but there are a large number of keys in the opened part
Susan Bish The whole point is to explore the space, not steal from it or vandalize it.
The fact that that blood hadn't totally browned over and still had a reddish tint means that it was still fairly fresh.
Your mom was there
@@imstillw8ing ?
@@imstillw8ing uh k
This placed closed because of covid I used to go there
What part was that in the video?
I used to work as a projectionist, the reason they don’t have little rooms for the projectors would be because movies start within 5 mins of each other and it was very manual before digital projection so you would literally be running from one projector to the next manually starting movies or rewinding movies which has ended! I’ve also used the Christie projector model too! Brings back memories!!
Ok then how and where are the speakers??? How many wires connects them????
@@shawnaburns5158 speakers are along the walls in the cinema and they connect up to a Dolby digital sound system which usually sits beside the projector in the projection room. Along one side of the 35mm film is the audio for the movie, a laser inside the projector reads the audio and converts it through the digital sound system and then to the speakers
@@stephenking8018 ok so the speaker wires are bunched up as they run up to the Soundsystem?? Kinda like on a airplane???
@@shawnaburns5158 yep! If you look on the walls of the movie theatres, there are usually curtains or folded fabric along the walls and the cables for the speakers usually run behind those from the projection room
@@stephenking8018 interesting! thank u so much for sharing that information! :D
Drive ins are returning, theaters are closing down... did we jump to another dimension or something?
I cant wait til we have our first drive in ...in my little town
It was all part of the plan. Muahahaha
Covid
Drive ins are safer.
California only has a few abandoned Drive-Ins left hopefully everyone'll take advantage of the current situation and give them the love they deserve
Yes I know its about Covid and its safer its just funny to me its called a joke ya'll LOL
I get kinda sad when I see things like this...theaters, malls, stores, etc. Reminds me of another time when I was young hanging out with friends, going out on dates to the movies and shopping for things. Sigh, so many places, so many memories, gone. Sad 😢
Looking at most recent life before 2020 is gunna make anyone sad.
@@oddfuture7916 I miss the little things. I remember Friday night's were blockbuster movie and pizza nights. My kids would get all excited when we got there and they would each scramble to pick 1 movie, 1 romcom for the the Mrs, and 1 action/adventure or horror movie 4 me. Man, id give anything to go back to those days. 😓
Some might say the '90s and '00s were a whole nother plane of life. At least you got to experience your times in such an era. Rip.
@@oddfuture7916 yeah, I guess you're right. It's a dam shame that it had to end.
@@johnrodriguez5277 I'm right there with you John some days I sit back and cry I'm an 80's baby and the 90's was the absolute best and the music don't get me started with that one I tell you times have gone 2 shit if you ask me all we have is memories
I was an usher there in 2001. Crazy how time changes things.
Woah u worked there
Crazyyyy!
What state is this in
@@bjay1289 New York
Is this glen falls ? Was it built in 90s or was it older ?
I know streaming services have been booming like crazy in the past few years, especially during this COVID shit, but we should never let movie theaters die. Watching a movie on a small TV screen at home is nothing compared to seeing it on the big screen for the first time. Movie theaters are an experience, and I really, REALLY hope they start getting popular again.
The Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna help make it happen.
I’m shocked there weren’t any homeless people taking refuge in the theater, seems like a perfect place
I am thinking the same...
This movie theater has only been closed for just over a year, OP is lying. Greenburgh Multiplex Theater
I know it even has running water and low level running lights. I bet the popcorn machine still works.
Its been closed about a year now. Also in the same lot there are open stores and a taco bell. So its not as empty as it looks there. Cops are always driving around too.
I would have to agree. Hey, its better than them being on the streets. This would be "perfect" for homeless people.
just imagine the good times the people that went there in the 90s with friends and watching movies that came out in the 90s. Eery.
I saw Minority Report there and went drinking down the road at Pete's Saloon with like half the theater it seemed. Good memories.
It actually only opened at the very end of the nineties (1999)
Eerie*
E E R Y
People watched Marvel's Captain America: Civil War at this theater, its not old. Came out in 1999 closed in 2019
Love that the theater opened in 1999 and closed in 2019... barely a 90s movie theater lolz
Just imagine people going to see Men In Black, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Godzilla (1998), Con Air, G.I. Jane, Forrest Gump, Space Jam, Mission: Impossible, Titanic, The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Blade, Spawn, Austin Powers, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Die Hard and other 90s classics here!
None of them because it was built in 1999
@@richardhorne5771 What month
@@devonkaijuwarrior8009 December
@@richardhorne5771 the Matrix is 1999
X-men the first one
You keep saying "gross" yet that place looks pretty damn clean for having been abandoned for a while.
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A piece of popped corn and 3 gummy worms is not "gross".
I agree. I've worked at a theater and this theater being abandoned for 13 years is cleaner than after 1 showing of Avengers at 7pm on a Saturday night.
It wasn't. I know where this is. It closed in March because of covid and the operator just went in and ripped the equipment out a few weeks ago and ended the lease.
@@seano147 Out of curiosity, do you happen to know if this was a National Amusements theater?
@@JDogg795 it was originally a Showcase, then Rave for a short time before changing to Cinemark .
@@seano147 this theater was a showcase. It closed in 2019 because of the 20 year lease running out
Idk if I'm ok with 90s being retro yet.
It's been 30 years
@@supermanprime1281 yeah well let's see how you feel when someone calls whatever generation you grew up in retro. It hits different.
@@Underyourbedeyes He wouldn't get it, he's too young. (Yes I'm also young since I was born in 2005, but even 2009 feels like a long time ago now)
@Crystina Walls not offensive. Sad. One day someone will look at something from 2005 or 10 and call it retro. And you'll be like well damn...
@Kiara Fuller what's too recent?
FYI this is the Greenburgh movie cinema in elmsford NY I know since I went to it my entire childhood into my adulthood and it closed May 30th 2019 not in 2006 idk where he got his info from but just thought I’d correct it for anyone interested
Yeah this seems way too recent. Plus everything inside was relatively clean inside im terms of dust and still had power and running water.
@@dustingilbert9991 yeah I watched avengers endgame there pretty sure that was the last movie I saw there before they shut it down
Exactly i use to go there all the time so many memories there
Just saw pics of it being torn down already which sucks.
Yeah I was going to say, if it had closed when he said wouldn’t the gummy worms and popcorn he found be dissolved or gone?
This theater was demolished in January 2021. A new Shop Rite is now being built on the land. This was the Greenburgh Multiplex Cinemas. It opened in 1999 and closed on May 30th 2019. FUN FACT there was another Multiplex Cinemas about 2 miles down the road from this one which was demolished in 2016. It was the same size as Greenburgh with 10 theaters but a lot older. Very odd having two massive theaters on the same road. Both theaters had the same owner. Hard the believe there both gone now
Well I say it should be reopened instead of a new shop rite I mean what I saw in this video it looks awesome.
yep I have been to both 🙁
Yeah I had placed this as VERY late 90s or early 00s, thanks for confirming. It was the stadium seating that gave it away, they didn't start doing that until the late 90s.
1:00 someone’s gotta save those neon signs, they are piece of history and don’t deserve to just sit there
The guy who does Retail Archeology would agree with you.
Make me feel like I’m in stranger things. Waiting for the demogorgons
BRUH how can he say he'd never go to a theater again because they are gross and have diseases while snooping in a dirty ABANDONED theater, touching e everything in sight! Incredible
Dude’s a clown
@@proud90skid15 he's just another snowflake.
@@youngyankee13 agree.
Lmao right. “i dOnT fEeL sAfE 🥴 “
Well it hasn't been touched in years, and germs actually don't live very long in that type of environment. Germs thrive with life.
I really hope that movie theatres don't die off to be replaced with streaming
This theater doesn’t look that bad as far as graffiti, damage etc.
Because the theater was only closed less then two years ago.
It says in the description it closed in 2006
@@Flubbler06 Do your own research. It's the Greenburgh Multiplex Cinema. Closed down in 2019 because lease expired.
Flubbler I worked there from 2010-2015. It closed in 2019.
@@Flubbler06 and he is wrong...it closed down May 30, 2019. I dk where he is getting that 2006 number. I am hope he is just mistaken and misinformed and not purposefully misinforming his viewers by making the building that it was abandoned longer then it has been
Greenburgh Multiplex Theater, Elmsford NY, closed in 2019. For some reason, that tour was really fun, kind of sad and a little spooky. Also, the theater opened in 1999. So, sadly, it only lasted 20 years.
Its sad when you look at the pictures of it online and see what is was like when it was open.
Thanks for mentioning the location, was wondering.
Thank you for the info
M D it’s supposed to get replaced with a supermarket
Yes, thank you for the info, was also wondering what it was called & where it was at. Now-a-days, a 20 year run for a such a business is not too surprising, particularly with movie theaters closing left & right.
I'd be more scared of the germs in walmart then a abandoned building. lol
Most of the people in that area have never been in a Walmart in their lives tho so there’s that
@@Eerie_Canal Yeah that's about accurate
@@Eerie_Canal well tbh that’s probably true since the near by Walmart in white plains closed in 2018
I'm 45, so I had the best of both the 80's and 90's....
I love what you guys do, man.. you show off these places without all the clickbait and trap music and exaggeration, it’s just pure raw exploration and appreciation of these old abandoned places
Totally agree
Trap music lol, some urbex videos feel generic when they do that
I do the same if you’d like to check me out!👍🏻
Music isn't necessary if the actual topic is good! Too often it is mixed too loud so you cant hear the people talking too. :/
The one thing I love about abandoned exploring is the quietness. Nothing is as real as a place that was once loud, now completely eerily silent. I started this years ago with the intentions of keeping it real and raw. I'm glad I could reach so many homes and entertain. Always more coming guys 🖤
I work as the after hours maintenance guy at a theater built back in the mid 80’s. The problem isn’t so much that it doesn’t get cleaned. Movie theaters are a low margin business and they can be pretty stingy with hours and wages. I only get four hours a night to clean and set up the entire place for the next day all by myself so you really have to rush, and if there’s something broken you have to fix then you’re in an even bigger hurry. Add to that all the people who are really nasty and throw and spill stuff all over the place but also sometimes do insane things like smear human waste on the walls or mirrors in the restrooms and you get an idea of what a challenge it can be. It’s pretty demoralizing trying to accomplish as much as you can in a large area like that in such a short amount of time. I have an assistant that works with me on weekends and you wouldn’t believe the number of them that just quit on me and walk out in the first hour.
As far as when theaters are going to reopen, your guess is as good as mine. I’ve been laid off since 19 March and the main reason besides the pandemic that we haven’t reopened is that there is nothing to show. The few new movies that are out there either keep getting their release dates pushed back or the studios just throw up their hands and put them online to stream. At this point I’m not sure we’ll ever reopen again if we don’t do it by this fall.
The movie theater in Cheyenne Wyoming is open now but just showing classic movies like the Goonies.
Can 100% confirm people loved smearing poop on the walls in the restrooms. No idea why this happened *often* at my theater lol kids puking a ton (1 gallon of slurpie/soda + a gallon of popcorn in a stomach the size of a softball = vomit city) was also extremely common
I feel so sorry for you.
Satoshi9801 Eh, it is what it is. I’m retired and do this job for a little extra money. I don’t mind working hard and I enjoy routine, plus it’s one of the few jobs where I can work alone without anyone bothering me and it’s quiet. Manager is pretty good to me as well, so that doesn’t suck.
@@steveb123vlog
There are a lot of mentally ill people out there that society just ignores and allows to continue with their behaviors.
If they were caught very little would happen and they would then be out and around doing it again. The issue is not just confined to cinemas.
Right now there are rioters in many cities that could go up and shoot somebody and nothing would happen to the perp as DA's would not prosecute declined
I used to be a manager at a movie theatre not too different from this one. It had 9 screens and one main lobby/concession area. This brings so much nostalgia back for me.
And yes projection 'rooms' are actually just big long hallways, generally. This makes it a lot easier for a projectionist to work and monitor each screen.
The main office is where the managers would monitor staff/the lobby through the cameras, count money and open/close out tills. Our theatre had two big safes. We had to balance the $14,000 cash safe every night before leaving. It couldn't be off by even a cent, we had to make sure it was exactly $14,000. On busy nights you'll do lifts from tills so you'll take their cash and leave their floats (about $200) so that they aren't holding onto too much cash. It was a very bustling type of work. There's coin and paper money counters, similar to what banks use.
Movie theatres, especially 90s and early 00s still went through a ton of cash so handling a lot of it was part of manager and supervisor jobs. My theatre also used head sets to communicate. So a manager and a supervisor would have one, multiple concession staff would have one, a projectionist would have one. Any time something was needed or something went wrong: You'd hear it on the ear piece.
The theatre you walked into that had lights, where you said it's how it is right before showing: those are actually the cleaning lights. House lights/Tivoli lights (The little ones along the floor to guide you during the movie) are what they use for pre-show for people to be seated, and after the show.
The concession area will forever be greasy, doesn't matter how often they mop. I had shoes that I called my butter shoes because they forever were greasy. And a pair of dress pants that were also my butter pants. (I often helped in concession when it was busy)
The projectors being left is crazy because they look like they're digital so they would be expensive. Although looks like they had swapped from film maybe recently before closing because i see some of the plate stands still there.
The theatre I worked at only had 2 digital projectors and otherwise was still using film when I was working there. That was a piece of history that I feel really nostalgic for. There no other type of panic you feel when a plate stops spinning properly. We once had to have a projectionist sit there and manually spin the plate to allow the film continue playing for the rest of the movie. He was a good kid!! I told him we could cancel the film and he said he would just do it.
I've never been big on going to the movies (Though I do miss it now because of Covid restrictions) but I loved working at one. The behind the scenes was really fun. I can still remember all the smells.
This was such a cool video to stumble onto. Thanks for sharing! It's sad to see it left abandoned and vandalized. Hopefully someone can pick it back up and bring new life into it. I love movie theatres, I hope they never die out.
Gives me such a huge feeling of Nostalgia for a place I’ve never even been. And I learned that, at least in this theater, all the projectors are in a hallway and could be controlled at the same time. How cool is that! Subscribed
This was the closest theater to my house. Had so many memories here. Just insane to see it abandoned. It closed in 2019, but still had that retro feel.
@STAY TRUE Greenburgh, NY
Dang, assuming it closed cuz of COVID? It looks pretty banged up for being only 3 years abandoned
@@SArtisto1 nah closed before Covid. They didn’t renew their lease.
@@stellarremnant Elmsford, NY**
Smart they knew pandemic wuz coming
There might be a lot more abandoned movie theaters soon...
You'll be seeing alot in the future here on my channel for sure !
a lot more abandoned everything
Sadly that might be true:( I honestly miss going to the movie theater.
Yeah and buffet restaurants
Movie theaters will soon be going the way of the arcade...
As a former motion picture projectionist, I will clue you in on a few things. . .
The projectors you saw upstairs in the PROJECTION BOOTH were left behind as they were 35mm film systems. The motion picture world has migrated to digital now. The whole movie is now shipped on a hard drive (same as your computer uses) where as a 35mm film would weigh between 200-300 pounds. What you saw upstairs that said CHRISTIE were just the lamp houses (light sources). There were a couple of projectors. Those would have ran about $35,000 per screen to buy the lamp house, projector, lens turret, and lenses. The golden lens you saw was called an anamorphic lens (cinemascope) and compresses the image so a wider picture can be placed in a regular 35 mm film frame. Basically a wider picture.
The theatre left all sorts of salvageable that were worth literally tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars behind. The seats, the popcorn machine (32 ounce was about 2-3,000 dollars each, Ice machines, not to mention the neon studio trademarks on the high walls. Those alone were probably $500 to $1,000 or more EACH to purchase. The safe(s) and counting machine in the office . . .
All in all a major waste, but in reading the comments, it was clear, there were several problems. Overbearing AC units, Poor seating and worse, Piss poor management and staff that sounds like they were to "busy" to help customers. . That alone is a good reason for people to not bother coming back. All in all one monumental waste of money and effort. Generally a good video, but that abandoned popcorn and gummy bears were not "chill'in" the were rotting. . The lights and some power were left on for security purposes. . .And you couldn't turn the auditorium lights back on as they were controlled by an automation system. . It would have had to cycled through to turn the lights back on unless you found the override switch. .
One last thing. Roof hatches are usually alarmed. . don't go on the roof.
Man, seeing this old 90s theater abandoned in the middle of COVID-19 just makes me real sad. Movie experiences at home aren't as awesome as they were on the big screen. I miss those days.
It closed May 30th, 2019 from bankruptcy/business issues. It wqs demolished and a Shoprite is being built in its place. Opened in 1999 as a first run movie theatre
@@TheWorldSpinsSlowly Thank you for this piece of information. Even if it's sad, I'm still glad to know of its fate.
I am absolutely amazed that no homeless have made a place for themselves there.A roof and power seems a good base.
I bet they had the power turned on for this video. It’s probably off 99% of the time
I would assume there is security and that the building is still looked after. I own several buildings like that and I keep security, power, heating and maintenance at them. And I would never allow a homeless swarm to gather there.
In my area, Rochester NY there was this theater called Cine 8 that shut down in 1998. For a long time it just sat there to rot. You could even see these promotion stickers for Mulan pealing off the front windows. I so...wish I had explored it before it got demolished.
*peeling* ,not pealing.
@@jaycoleman6552 Lol you know what I meant
Oh wow. How long was it standing for?
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I’m feeling nostalgic for a place that I have never been
This is the actual literal movie theater I went to as a child!! I can’t believe all these years later I was able to identify it from the thumbnail!
Hol up, he opened the draws and didn’t find 9mm bullets, shotgun shells, scissors or pills......has the last of us lied to me???
🤣
Bruh I’m asking the same question
thinking the same thing
Also they found a blood smite going upstairs where private meetings can happy and rich criminals do own beautiful legal everyday business like my beautiful favorite store Walgreens for example. Blood doesn’t just get there and if the place was to remain nice but there’s obviously random broken shit then stuff obviously happens. Blood looks dry but fresh. Also what’s up there that could cut so deeply or what happened to have blood on the wall 🩸 and for illegal business reasons nothing would be brought and left.
I literally felt the same way
No way that thing has been closed for 15 years, I'd guess maybe a year.
******EDIT: Does anybody know how I mute notifications for this comment/thread? Starting to irritate me a little!!*****
Absolutely no way it's been closed since 2005. Judging by the trash at 11:25 it closed very recently. I'd say probably because of covid
@@katrina7679 I'd say it has been closed for at least six years since it wasn't converted to digital projectors. The last of the film projectors in movie theaters went out around 2014.
@@CLR2TKF I point to the trash again because of the logo on the deer park bottle. That new logo came out in 2016. Also that Pepsi cup/logo was reintroduced around 2018. The restaurant I used to work at had them
@@CLR2TKF notice half the projectors were missing, these must have been the good ones. The ones left behind not worth saving.
@@dcan911 You are right it closed May 30, 2019. It was the greenburgh multiplex theater. It is actually getting tore down and a ShopRite grocery store is taking it's place.
holy crap I saw Toy Story 3 in this theatre when it first came out!!! I didn’t even recognize it from how long ago that was 😭😭😭 man those neon signs are freaking awesome can’t believe the building is gone tho ),:
Honestly I don't know why homeless people haven't moved in
Maybe they don't want to see some ghosts...
The air probably isn’t safe to inhale for long periods of time
@@lachicalinda6165 if your homeless and cold you prob aren’t worried about that
There are very few homeless people in this county, as the population is so dense and the law enforcement is so uncaring towards homeless populations. They also usually relocate to NYC because it’s closer and they have access to more opportunities.
This theatre is gone now. I was demolished three months ago.
This is in Elmsford, NY. It just closed in May 2019 due to many newer and more modern theaters in the area. I liked that it had free parking.
You have to pay for movie theater parking in Elmsford, NY? Bummer!
@@chasepowers9186 nearby theaters in White Plains and Yonkers have paid parking.
So this cinema is in Elmsford, NY?? It is a National Amusements/Redstone Cinema. That special red and blue patterned schell carpet was in most National Amusement/Redstone Cinemas. I would suspect it was custom made just for them as one identity (chain) has their own special carpet. By the way Sumner Redstone just died a month ago. He was 97..
What crappy ass theater charges for parking?
You mean to tell me there are Movie Theaters you have to pay for parking?! Honestly I've never heard of such ridiculous policies.
It is so sad and amazing seeing movie theaters being abandoned, like malls. It is a nostalgia trip.
Theatres took a big hit with COVID.
The Regal near me has been closed for months. Though I don't know if I'd go back since it also had cloth seats. Ugh. They always smelled musty.
holes in the wall aside, this is nicer than the movie theater I currently work at
I love this guy's accent, such a chilled out calm voice. I could listen to him all day 🤤
1990's seems like yesterday, guess this is what getting old feels like.
I feel the same lol
It was close recently
Yep I was thinking the exact same when I saw this. I mean damn the 90's wasn't that long ago 😂 Now if he was exploring a theater from the 60's or 70's that would be something
Yeah our local classic rock station here is starting to play 90s music I listened to growing up. That's when I first started feeling like I was getting old.
Yeah I’m 30 so I know what you mean
Someone would pay good money for that disney world neon sign.
What about the other signs?
the first thing i thought of was the neon signs. I would like to have all of them.
I'm surprised any of those signs are still there, they'd make great collector items.
@@tbrown5657 They was there. Now in my safe hands. Neon looks good on my bedroom wall
exactly! first thought was ‘where can I find one of these?’ so cool!
Christie, along with Barco, makes big cinema projectors like that one - that big box with the flue on top held the light source, usually a xenon arc lamp that was ridiculously bright and ridiculously hot. They're basically an arc welder running constantly, sending the light through either actual film or some sort of digital device like an LCD panel or micromirror array. This one looks like one of the latter, as I don't see any place to put the film spools.
HOLY! This was a threatre I went to all the time! There’s a combo kfc/Taco Bell to the left and we’d always go there after the movies. A new theatre opened closer though so we started going there. It’s so strange seeing a place I’ve been to in this state...
The title and description are false, the theater was built in the late 90s and it didn’t closed down in 2006, it closed down in 2019. The Theater is called “Greenburgh Multiplex Cinemas Elmsford NY”
*Update: This dude literally changed his description from 2006 to 2019. I guess he didn’t want nobody to notice.*
Literally, this. This used to be my closest theater and it closed down last year, before that I had been there like, hundreds of times.
Was gonna say.cause that water fountain is still running
Closed Thursday 5/30/2019.
Sad
As soon as I saw it I knew that's what it was. There are a couple of stores in that plaza including a taco bell/kfc
Someone stole my purse! Looks like he’s headed to the projection room above the auditorium!
I love this so much, this comment made my night
Ashleigh Nicole haha anytime I can quote Mean Girls, I do
@@whatweather hahaha me too!
"One way or another, I'm gonna find ya...I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha..." 🎤
Kerra Johnson grool!
I'M NOT READY TO LET GO OF MOVIE THEATERS!!!!! 😭😭😭
Oh WOW, this is the movie theater in Elmsford, New York. Down the road from where I grew up! It looked familiar but figured all movie theaters look the same until I saw the parking lot. I remember applying for a job here as a teenager lol simple times.
Imagine, you’re done watching a movie in this movie theater. And you walk out and it’s late at night, imagine that
as someone who went to this cinema it literally closed last year LMAOOAODKKSKR
this comment needs to go to the top so everyone knows how misleading his videos are. That's why the Power was on because he filmed shortly after it closed down in 2019.
@@HaniJIsmail , the title is correct in saying this is an abandoned 1990's movie theater.
No wonder it closed down, they failed to update it!
That would explain why there were still projectors in the upper hall with lenses intact. Those lenses are worth THOUSANDS. Back in the early 00's I was about to go into a lease to restore a theater from the late 80's that closed in 2000. Landlord took me up to the projection hall to "impress" me with all the projectors still in place. I walked up to each one and said "Well, these are nice, but they're worthless without the lenses." I declined to pick up the lease. Turned out the former owner helped himself to the lenses when he walked out on the lease.
This was the movie theater I used to go to as a kid, a lot of memories there and the arcade they had and a huge candy wall that was in the middle of that open space. It is in westchester new york and it’s sad to see that place be so run down, I remember watching star wars and harry potter movies there :,)
It’s so weird looking at this place because it looks exactly like what my local movie theater looks like with minor detail changes
I went to this movie theatre a lot during the late 90's when it was new, through the 2000's. A few more theatres were built in the area after this one was built, making it seem outdated quite quickly. It was built around the late 90's, but was abandoned only a couple of years ago, around 2018 - not 2006 like the description says. That's why it looks rather clean (for an abandoned building). The town it's in recently approved plans to demolish and build a supermarket in it's place, which probably explains why the blueprints are there.
I wonder how this guy got access to be in there
Iliana Ortiz it’s called he just went there and explored probably not hard to get on the property lol
Ngl, I would be tempted to snag one of the silver screens for myself because they cost quite a bit and I imagine they would be throwing them away anyway.
@@ElderDoge i would of came around with a truck later and grabbed all those speakers from all the theater rooms and srll them, maybe keep some in my basement for movie night
@@Nemy360 I'm curious how big the speakers are behind the screen.
Fun Fact: The most likely reason the power is on is to have the lights on to deter rats and other rodents.
Interesting
They would be scared of the lights?
I’m sure he’d walk into a Walmart and think he was “safe”.... eye roll
lol, damn
Movie theater work was my favorite job by far in this lifetime.
I felt you explorers were very respectful and i appreciated that.
I was born in ‘85. This definitely brings back memories!! That color scheme alone takes me back!! What I wouldn’t give to go back to that time period again!!!
People watched Marvel's Captain America: Civil War at this theater, its not old. Came out in 1999 closed in 2019. Called Greenburgh Multiplex Cinemas
I can’t believe the speakers and projectors are still there. Crazy.
Didn't see the speakers, but the projectors appear to be "film". About as useful as a betamax vcr these days. It does look like a couple of projectors had been removed.
Russell Hltn speakers are all along the walls of the theater rooms. Yeah didn’t see the front stage speakers in the video. Agreed those projectors are now vintage but so cool and still very expensive to just be sitting there!
The ice maker machine is pretty expensive too.
Used to be a projectionist. It looks like not all the projectors are there. Seems like they sold the few that they could to other theaters and left the ones that needed work. They wouldn't be worth anything now since most theaters have all digital projectors but from the looks of the place, they went under far before the mass switch over to digital in the late 2000s so they definitely could've made some money from their ones in decent shape.
Also I noticed their film pans are gone which are big metal pans that would sit next to the projectors and distribute/collect the film as it went through the projector. At the very least those could've been sold for scrap.
This is the theater that I grew up going to. Seeing the thumbnail shocked me and I clicked right away. This makes me sad 😭
The little refreshment area brought back memories when my grandma used to take me. Instead of blue theme it was blacked out and was generally red and black 😢 it’s was just a movie theatre but so many memories
this brings me back
Yeah😔
It's been some twenty years now and can still smell the freshly popcorn 🍿. The seats had not sat in,the projectors hadn't been used, Cinema 🎥 Max was the theater of dreams and it was it really was.
memories
Memories of this place are real bro.
To 2019
Those neon signs were perfect, I’m surprised they’re still there.
thats because it literally closed down 2 years ago lol not 2006 😂 I literally live right behind it
@@brandoncastro2441 really?
I was saying the whole time that those computers aren't old meaning it shut down more recently... where is this located like state wise? Our old movie theaters got turned into Chinese buffets hahaha
@@franguy5498 It is being tore down and a shoprite is being built in it's location. And to answer your question it is located in NY
@@nmstranger thanks for the knowledge! Sucks being torn down it didn't look like it was in that bad of shape, I never make videos of the abandoned places I go, usually once the video goes popular they get torn down the one by my house I've been going to since a kid got torn down cuz a UA-camr made it famous...
But at the same time I kind of like watching the videos because hey I know I was never getting to that place so I'm glad someone did!
@@nmstranger there tearing it down? That stinks, it looks like it wouldn't take much to get that back up and running.
This is amazing. I worked at 2 different theaters while in college as a concessionest, usher and projectionist back in the 90s. But those theaters are gone today, one demo'd when the mall shut down and the other closed completely a few years ago in my hometown. This reminds me of the second one so much and the long projector rooms and 'threading' the projectors and hoping the film didn't break! Back then films came in 4-5 reel cans and we have to 'build' them by splicing them together with trailers and ads. We would do a test run for free to whoever worked there. Of course you had to get the can order right. And those prints back then were expensive rentals so most theaters make their money off the concessions, thus why it costs so much. Things changed years later with digital..... Those were the days.
Omg ! This movie theater bring back so much going to the movies as a little girl in the 90s to going to the movies with my family and daycares (in the summer).
Movie theatres are hard to repurpose. They have those sunken floors that need tons of concrete to fill. Wires to be rerouted, carpets to pull up, and new flooring to put down. Walls removed and replaced differently. Easily could become a dollar store, a restaurant, or government building... Instead... they're left to rot.
I never thought about it that way. You must be a contractor
@@flyingveda Actually, if it's the real J. Mascis, he is the genius behind the seminal band Dinosaur Jr. :)
@@RosemarysSweetLilBaby very cool. It sounds like he has done a lot of research on the subject
Could make a cool hotel out of it 😅
Concert venue perhaps
If I ever explore to an abandoned movie theater one day, I'll go to the recording room and load the THX logo with the volume way high up, then quickly sit back in the theater and become deaf
What a deep melancholy nostalgia... Sigh. Thank you for posting this!
As a manager of a movie theater that is 1980/1990 retro, I find this totally fascinating. Our theater, while old, has had a lot of upkeep. Right now, our attention is focused on fixing roof leaks- the building is a flat top, and we had a snowstorm that left us with 1.5 feet of snow.. so the weight is giving our poor building some issues. I can see that this building had the same issue in their lobby, with the fallen ceiling tiles!
We have those retro emerald green cabinets and counters in our concessions stand, neon lights everywhere, and a patterned carpet that is definitely nostalgic. And, our theater is smaller- smaller lobby, and only 7 auditoriums. :)
I'd love to visit here, it seems so cool.
This place is so creepy...Imagine at night. I would be scared of people coming in.
I loved this! I worked in a theater for 7 years & ran it for 3. It was similar to this one being that its also outdated. I’m familiar with a lot of the old equipment & machinery u walked past. Y’all definitely brought back some good memories with this one. ❤️👏🏾
How cool! Is it still in business or is it abandoned like this one too?
kristine elizabeth It’s still in business! It’s apart of the Regal chain of theaters. That company has no interest whatsoever in investing their profits into upgrading their older theaters sadly. So they’re left looking like this one, only still operating. Old equipment, outdated & uncontrollable seats... the whole 9 yards. Lol. The projectors will be the only upgrade you’ll find in the older cinemas.
@@TamJ1 The old theater that I used to frequent during the high school days smelled horribly. Don't get me wrong, those were some nostalgic memories. My first movie at the theaters was Sweet Home Alabama lol. I remembered the place reeked of stale buttery popcorn, soda-stained carpets, squeaky seats and sticky floors. If that movie theater you worked for doesn't want to invest in some upgrades, I can only hope they can survive this pandemic.
kristine elizabeth Agreed! Definitely some great memories, but I don’t see them bouncing back from this. Business was already slow before the pandemic. Glad I got my best years out of that place & some experience under my belt.
I had the same experience. It was all too familiar and brought back a lot of memories.
This theater was in my town. I have super fond memories of seeing movies there! The building has since been torn down, and they are building a new ShopRite in its place. there was also a small complex on the same lot that had a pizza shop, bank, toy car racetrack, laundromat, amongst other small shops. I was born in 2001 so I never experienced the "90s aesthetic" in it's peak, but I always loved stepping foot inside this theater and feeling like I was in a time capsule.
Everybody's talking about the neon lights needing to be salvaged, and I'm just here like DANG these Christie consoles are worth 8000,- each :|
I can't seem to see the neon lights. Can you time stamp it?
The speakers and subwoofers behind the screens (especially if there are any THX or Dolby Certified) are probably worth a mint too.
IKR!? The bulbs for those things are anywhere from $800-$1600 each!
Ight, who wanna go salvage that place😂
@@dubbyhctv4492 its already been demolished sadly
SOOO sad to think of movie theaters as "nostalgic"
why?
Why? I only have good memories.
@@zacharyrollick6169 yeah, but it’s sad that movie theaters are even seen as nostalgic now, especially because of the virus :/
We still have some open, with limited seating, in our area. We went last night and watched "Sonic the Hedgehog." Not a new flick, but still fun to get out.
@@mishunkontrol1874 Great movie. Hope you enjoyed it, I did!
When I worked at this movie theater a set of lights called the "cleaning lights" replaced the normals lights and illuminated the theatres in this very creepy subdued light. It was ghostly and the silence was unnerving.
Eyyyyy greenburgh NY Paul fiener y'know xD
The aesthetic here is SO GOOD. Such great atmosphere. If only those neon lights were operational!
ever have an image bring you back to an early childhood memory that you've forgotten about? well this did that for me
The projectors definitely should have been taken or auctioned by the company. Those are worth a *ton*. That window you looked it had the piping for it in the ceiling (many made so much heat that they are cooled from outside on the roof). Worked at one for 10 years and the old non digital projectors made so much heat it was insane. Can 100% confirm that was butter/oil on that floor and that NEVER comes off. We mopped, bleached, de-greased that every night and it never leaves that tile. Literally fuses with the tile for eternity. You basically just slid when you worked back there like you were on ice. Insane seeing the exact same popcorn popper my theater had still there. This makes me equal parts nostalgic and sad knowing Covid will probably kill the last theaters.
It will only kill them if everyone keeps being a big pussy about it
@@yamahaguy1732 This attitude is why Coronavirus is killing over 1000 Americans a day and it is raging uncontrolled across the country
Tom cat my whole state has this “attitude” you say I have and we are one of the best in covid so please explain I know dozens of people who have had it NONE have died and we’re barely sick they were fine after 2 days
@@yamahaguy1732 I don't really care to argue with you, Trump and Kushner have been appallingly negligent in managing coronavirus and I don't want to debate with a MAGA supporter. It's like talking to a brick wall. 1000 Americans are dying each day and its getting worse
I looked up the price, they are worth a lot of money. Amazing that they are still there.
How sad to see such a great building go to waste, that building carries so much memory from that era.
Right? These could be repurposed as 90s film Museums
D'Jaziko I know, it’s too bad no one can buy ..
@@djaziko457
No body will go to 90s films museums because they are not going to cinema today. People simply cannot tolerate the trash that is being released today.
Yeah it look pretty nice movie therther
OMGGGG imagine going on a date here, or taking the kids for a nigh out. For me watching these videos I can almost how it was when it was operable. 😍... thanks for all the videos, I enjoy them!
I’m surprised it doesn’t have graffiti everywhere.
It only closed because of covid
@@adverbalex5905 it closed in 2005 lol
@@Joy-tq2de it closed in 2019
The locals aren’t really graffiti types for the most part...plus I have a feeling he got permission to go in here.
I can just smell the popcorn! So sad how everything is changing...
The 90s was such a great decade. Absolutely loved growing up in the 90s
you're crying about germs and covid but wearing no gloves and touching everything 😂
The op’s a clown
99.5% survival rate.. but that .5% 🤣 gtfoh w that when you’re breathing in asbestos. Smarten up kid
there are more germs in those unwashed dreads than a nursing home in new york....
@@AB-tg6rc Masks don't do anything and more lives are getting destroyed than this stupid fake lies of a pandemic is doing to people. Its a plandemic.
Can’t catch illnesses from a place that has no humans in it....there’s a difference between dirt and bacteria
“I probably won’t be visiting many movie theaters anymore because they are filled with germs”
Also- “hey here this asbestos filled, black mold having abandoned building, let’s take a look around!”
He had a respirator. You can hear his voice get really muffled at certain parts of the video and you see him wearing it too.
@Joe Kinchicken Thanks, Mr. Science.
@@111highgh ok bill nye
Agreed. A little dramatic much?
He said they’re dirty and gross because of the popcorn and gummy worms like he expects someone to clean a abandoned theater lmao
I love the production logos (Paramount, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros, etc) on the walls. That's neat! Now THAT'S how a movie theater lobby should look like.
Those look like neon tubes, would probably look amazing. Pity that they probably got smashed when the building was demolished...
Its so sad to see places like this be relics and abandoned 😞
The good old days. Love that carpet😍