Avon Theatre

459 Clinton Avenue,
Newark, NJ 07108

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 27, 2009 at 3:59 am

Here is a photo circa 1939:
http://tinyurl.com/ooch45

Roger Katz
Roger Katz on January 1, 2009 at 1:46 am

I was just in Newark yesterday to photographs cinemas. This theatre is demolished.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 6, 2008 at 3:59 am

LOL I had the aerial map upside down. The apartment buildings opposite the vacant land are relatively new. From the aerial view, there is no building there that could have been a 980 seat theater. There are older buildings on the next block, but their addresses wouldn’t match the address above.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 6, 2008 at 3:45 am

The vacant land is on the even side of the street. The odd side is a set of houses which look relatively new.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 6, 2008 at 3:32 am

Take two excedrin and call me in the morning.

You might be right about this theater being gone. An aerial view shows alot of vacant land in this vicinity.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 6, 2008 at 3:28 am

If I have to work all day on July 4th, and July 5th, allow me a little speculation to ease the pain.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 6, 2008 at 3:23 am

Are you going to speculate on the status of every theater? I’m just curious.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 6, 2008 at 3:02 am

It looks like the entire block between Hunterdon & Peshine has been plowed under and replaced by housing. This is on the odd side of the street, between 450 and 460, more or less. After you cross Hunterdon, the businesses are numbered in the 470s and 480s. I don’t believe the theater is still around, but I can’t say that definitively.

teecee
teecee on March 2, 2006 at 12:47 pm

Listed as part of Independent Theater Service, Inc. in the 1956 Film Daily Yearbook.

teecee
teecee on March 2, 2006 at 10:50 am

Listed as open in the 1944 FDY. Listed in the 1961 FDY as part of Triangle-Liggett Theatre Service.