Midway Theater
20 Broadway Street,
Camden,
NJ
08103
20 Broadway Street,
Camden,
NJ
08103
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Listed in the 1951 FDY as the Broadway Theater. Later demolished to make room for the Walter Rand Transportation Center. Located across the street from the high speed train line to Philadelphia.
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Listed in 1941 Film Daily Yearbook as the Broadway Theater with 1,100 seats.
Known as the Broadway Theater 1930s-1950 and then the Midway Theater 1951-1970s
Located at 20 Broadway
Information per dvrbs website
This was the last indoor theater to operate in Camden, surviving into the ‘70s showing B double features. Part of the local Savar chain along with the Savar a couple blocks away, the Walt Whitman in Pennsauken, the King in Gloucester City and the Garden State Drive-In in Cherry Hill—all now gone.
Listed as part of The Savar Corporation in the 1976 International Motion Picture Almanac.
Here is a 1973 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/395w4u
With the onset of the Depression, many banks closed and never re-opened, including the Broadway Merchants Trust Company in downtown Camden. In 1933, the building was converted into the Broadway Theatre, with David Supowitz as architect, according to a report in the May 10, 1934 issue of New York State Exhibitor. At opening in 1934, the theatre was called New Broadway, but the adjective was eventually dropped from the name. Here are some exterior and interior images that accompanied the article:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/camdenbway1.jpg
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/camdenbway2.jpg
Here are new links to images described above on 2/1/08:
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Here is a better version of the 1973 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lzsc4k
The Midway was still in operation as late as 1978. With Federal funds for its garage project delayed, the city of Camden decided to let the theater on a monthly lease to Marcos Cotto, who presented Spanish language movies at the house, according to Boxoffice Magazine of July 10, 1978.
A photo of the Broadway Theatre’s auditorium is marked #3 in this 1936 collection: boxofficemagazine