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teecee commented about Hamid's Million Dollar Pier Theatre on Jun 28, 2007 at 7:09 pm

Nice history:
http://www.acweekly.com/view.php?id=4198

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teecee commented about Hamid's Million Dollar Pier Theatre on Jun 28, 2007 at 7:08 pm

postcard of aforementioned residence:
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teecee commented about Hamid's Million Dollar Pier Theatre on Jun 28, 2007 at 7:06 pm

Ocean One has attracted visitors since 1906 when Captain John Young opened his famous Million Dollar Pier at this location. He even lived at the end of the pier in an elaborate marble villa with state of the art Edison-designed pastel lighting and garden sculptures.

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teecee commented about Hamid's Million Dollar Pier Theatre on Jun 28, 2007 at 7:05 pm

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a few more

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teecee commented about Hamid's Million Dollar Pier Theatre on Jun 28, 2007 at 7:02 pm

Old postcard:
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teecee commented about Clairidge on Jun 10, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Oddly enough I don’t see any modern photos posted here, so I found one:
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teecee commented about AMC Rockaway 16 on Jun 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Construction photo here:
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teecee commented about AMC Brunswick Square 13 on Jun 10, 2007 at 7:24 pm

Photo:
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teecee commented about Barn Theater on Jun 10, 2007 at 11:43 am

Old postcard:
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teecee commented about Cameo Theatre on Jun 10, 2007 at 11:43 am

This was a Fox theatre doing live shows in 1929:

Program cover:

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2nd page:

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teecee commented about Palace Theatre on Jun 10, 2007 at 11:41 am

Old postcard:
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teecee commented about Rex Theatre on Jun 10, 2007 at 11:41 am

Very old postcard:

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teecee commented about Runnemede Theatre on Jun 10, 2007 at 11:22 am

Interesting history at this link (see “Did you Know?”):

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teecee commented about Forum Theatre Arts Center on Jun 9, 2007 at 12:07 pm

This theater will close down this August. A number of small theaters have closed recently in NJ or are in financial distress.

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teecee commented about Broad Theatre on Jun 9, 2007 at 8:56 am

Another old photo:

http://oldnewark.com/busind/theatre/shubert.htm

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teecee commented about Broad Theatre on Jun 9, 2007 at 8:55 am

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old post card. Incidently, I have a post card for another Shubert Theatre on Washington Street. Any insight on that one?

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teecee commented about Brighton Theatre on May 8, 2007 at 4:21 pm

1912 photo:
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teecee commented about Fox Theatre on May 8, 2007 at 4:18 pm

I don’t believe that this one has been posted yet:

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teecee commented about Brook Arts Center on May 6, 2007 at 3:00 am

How did the theatre fare during the recent flood?

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teecee commented about Warner Huntington Park on Apr 29, 2007 at 6:45 am

Is this the theater featured near the end of “Ask the Dust”?
I know that most of the movie was shot in South Africa but the imdb lists LA as another filming location. Perhaps the interior shots were somewhere else but there is a brief shot of a Warner marquee.

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teecee commented about Brunswick Theater on Apr 6, 2007 at 2:20 pm

“By the end of 1976, the Lincoln and all of the other downtown Trenton movie houses were shuttered, deemed obsolete in an era that saw residents and theaters alike desert the inner city for the suburbs.
Only the Brunswick, once a haven for lovers of foreign film, was resurrected briefly in 1979 on the edge of Trenton near Lawrence as an “adult” movie theater. The days when you could share a cup of espresso in the lobby and discuss a movie were long gone.”

from “Arts and Entertainment: 1970-‘79” The Times of Trenton 9/19/1999.

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teecee commented about RKO Lincoln Theatre on Apr 6, 2007 at 2:09 pm

The theatre was demolished in 1976.

per “The sounds of city’s theater organs long silent"
The Times of Trenton, June 4, 2000

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teecee commented about Hights Theater on Apr 6, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Still open in the early 1970s:

“If you wanted to see a movie in the Trenton area at the beginning of the 1970s, you had a choice: In New Jersey, it was the Mayfair, Lincoln, Trent, Greenwood and Brunswick in Trenton; Capitol Plaza Cinema in Ewing; Eric Lawrenceville in Lawrence; Prince in West Windsor; and the Hights in Hightstown.”

from “Arts and Entertainment: 1970-‘79” The Times of Trenton, 9/19/1999

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teecee commented about Centre Street Theatre on Apr 6, 2007 at 1:49 pm

According to The Times of Trenton article “Trenton’s Bijou days are bygone” 5/24/1993, the Centre was at 422 Centre Street and it is now Adams Rental. A web search finds http://www.adamsrental.com/ still an active business.

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teecee commented about Wilbur Palace Theatre on Apr 6, 2007 at 1:42 pm

`As to the nickelodeons, I can't forget the one labeled theTin Dump' due to the outer sheathing of corrugated tin sheets. It featured blood and thunder' westerns starring the likes of Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Tom Mix, Dustin Farnum, et al. Actually, its formal name was the Wilbur Palace, but no one called it other than theTin Dump.‘ Moments of high drama at showings of these westerns often soured badly. Impish kids would race up and down on the outside of the theater trailing sticks across the ridges of the corrugated sheathing, giving off rat-tat-tat sound effects. On the inside it overpowered the piano player’s frenzied renditions of the William Tell Overture.

excerpt from “The sounds of city’s theater organs long silent” The Times of Trenton, June 4, 2000