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'Back To The 30's Cocktail Party' at the Suffolk Theater

The marquee of the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.

Photo credit: Ed Betz

The Suffolk Theater has been a fixture feature of Riverhead’s Main Street for decades, but for a good portion of that time the unique movie house sat closed.

Opening in the 1930s, it was built with an eye toward making film viewing an experience. Extravagantly designed in art-deco fashion, the theater was awash in bold shapes, colors and patterns; murals, mosaics and carvings were also part...

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