Comments about Paramount Theatre in Long Branch, NJ

Gamble on March 23, 2012 at 8:14 pm

Damn you sipersteins! I highly doubt renovations will ever take place there.

Matt Lambros on March 22, 2012 at 2:09 pm

Here’s a blog posting and some recent pictures of the Paramount Theatre

Tinseltoes on October 31, 2011 at 4:59 pm

Can anyone confirm if Leon Cubberley was the architect? The atmospheric auditorium shows the influences of John Eberson and Thomas W. Lamb: findagrave

Porcelain Doll on October 31, 2011 at 4:45 pm

I don’t think they are restoring this theatre anymore, place is in such terrible shape and no work had been done since the closure of the paint warehouse.

atmos on May 14, 2011 at 8:05 am

I believe the architect was Leon Cubberley.

markp on July 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm

It is my understanding that work on bringing it back to a theatre is going at a snails pace. Lets hope it gets done in the next 2 to 3 years.

veyoung52 on July 26, 2008 at 8:10 pm

I just found the following on the c.t. page for the Paramount in Asbury Park (theatre #222) concerning this Paramount in Long Branch.

“The Paramount Long Branch was also used for test exhibition of Cinemiracle and WINDJAMMER. The film was eventually exhibited at the St. James in July 1959. posted by on Dec 7, 2006 at 2:25am”

Does anybody know anything more about this? The film was also scored and tested in late 1957 at the Mt. Edens in the Bronx. Thanks.

Roloff on April 19, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Good thing it’s being restored! See a hi-res scan of one of the postcards from above, featuring Reade’s Strand and the Paramount across the street, from 1939, in my Flickrstream:
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Warren G. Harris on March 16, 2008 at 11:24 am

I believe that the spelling was Paramount Theatre (not Paramount Theater), the same as the flagship Paramount Theatre in Times Square, New York City.

teecee on March 16, 2008 at 10:43 am

NY times article:
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Another description of the project:

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teecee on March 16, 2008 at 10:36 am

Basic information from a local real estate agent:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-176652665.html

CinemaCentre on January 6, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Updates on this theatre:

http://cinematreasures.org/news/15665_0_1_20_C/

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teecee on September 30, 2006 at 9:52 am

http://www.historiclongbranch.org/town.htm

Fourth picture down shows this theatre as the Reades Broadway.
Fifth picture down is a newer one after its changeover to the Paramount.

teecee on September 23, 2006 at 7:38 am

Another old postcard:
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lostmemory on March 12, 2006 at 6:40 pm

Here is a 2005 article about the former Paramount theater being converted into a performing arts theater.

teecee on March 10, 2006 at 8:06 pm

A previous Moller organ, opus 2030, was installed in the Broadway Theatre in 1915.

teecee on March 10, 2006 at 8:00 pm

A Moller organ, opus 2806, was installed in the Broadway Theatre in 1920.

teecee on March 3, 2006 at 5:57 pm

Was previously known as the Broadway Theatre. Compare this postcard to the previos one:
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teecee on March 2, 2006 at 8:02 am

Listed in the 1944 FDY. Listed as a Walter Reade Theatre in the 1956 Film Daily Yearbook.

teecee on September 9, 2005 at 5:19 am

Old postcard:
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teecee on March 25, 2005 at 7:53 am

Siperstein’s
128 Broadway
Long Branch, NJ 07740
732-222-6384

teecee on March 24, 2005 at 10:40 am

Listed in the 1951 FDY.

Paramount Theatre

142 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740

142 Broadway,
Long Branch, NJ 07740