Queen Theater — Attraction in Honolulu

The Queen Theater, near the top of Wai‘alae Avenue in Kaimukı, is a survivor from the golden age of cinema. Built in 1936, the 850-seat theater hosted everything from traveling vaudeville shows to 25-cent matinées. Opened in 1936 the theater was named Queen to act as a companion to downtown Honolulu’s King Theater, as well as being a nod to Queen Liliuokalani, and Hawai’i’s royal history. Abandoned theater...

Awesome landmark, but it honestly needs to be torn down and rebuilt, it’s a mess. The popular area it occupies could be put to much better use. They could keep the cool old sign and put it on a new theater. Not worth preserving the structure at this point, I think it’s been abandoned...

If the owner is down to do a "Dinner and a Movie" membership club, I'd pay in. Maybe an annual membership for a catered meal inside, a quick break, and then a movie on a digital screen. I know this may sound stupid but many of us in Palolo and Kaimuki would...