Towers Theatre
714 South Broadway,
Camden,
NJ
08103
714 South Broadway,
Camden,
NJ
08103
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The Towers Theatre was located on South Broadway just North of Pine Street.
Any further information or history on the Tower Theatre would be appreciated.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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Both names are correct. This theater opened as the Towers theater and was renamed Tower theater. Here is a postcard picture of the Towers theater:
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Another postcard (1920):
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Photo from 1950:
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Managed by Lee F. Harvey, 1940-1950
Architects: Hoffman-Henon Co.
I have posted newspaper ads from 1928 and 1942 on my website. The name in the ads is TOWERS. Likewise, the 1950 photograph shows TOWERS on the marquee. I do not believe that at anytime the Camden theater was known as the TOWER…. a look at the building shows TWO!!!
If I come across an newspaper ad with the TOWER name, I will notify Cinema Treasure at once.
There is, of course, a TOWER theatre across the river on 69th Street in Philly/Upper Darby.
New page up as of 4/5/04 www.dvrbs.com/CamdenNJ-Movies-Towers.htm
Phil Cohen
Camden NJ
Status should be closed/demolished:
Broadway stretches through the heart of Camden, a wide street lined with struggling shops and rotting rowhouses, a three-mile tour of desperation and lost hope. Prostitutes flit between vacant stores and abandoned banks, plying an older form of commerce, while drugs are sold on side streets. The old Towers Theater at Broadway and Pine has been replaced by a Citgo gas station. This road has been down a long time – many of the businesses that didn’t burn during the 1971 riots fled.
Ken, are there still many beautiful old buildings in downtown Camden that someday could be restored like in Detroit and Buffalo or is it a total lost cause like in East St. Louis, Illinois and Gary, Indaina?
I would say “lost cause”.
Here is another repaired link for the dvrbs photo:
http://tinyurl.com/53zv33
Featured in this lecture on Camden theatres: youtube
Since the building had two towers, it seems unlikely that the theatre was ever called anything but TOWERS. I suspect that the name might have been spelled incorrectly if found that way in a Film Daily Year Book. The annual is notorious for frequent errors.