Beacon Theater
131 Main Street,
East Orange,
NJ
07018
131 Main Street,
East Orange,
NJ
07018
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I found one brief mention of an Oxford Theater: The International Film Arts Guild took over the Oxford Theatre in East Orange, New Jersey in the summer of 1927 and boasted of Thomas Edison being a regular patron.
East Orange had an early cinema called the Oxford, but I have no information about it except this. In 1930, most of the Oxford’s interior was converted into a miniature golf course, and the stage area into an archery range. Presumably, there was some sort of barrier to protect golfers from stray arrows. I don’t know how long the conversion lasted, but perhaps the Oxford eventually became a cinema again under a different name?
Listed as open in the 1951 FDY.