Allwood Sixplex
92 Market Street,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
92 Market Street,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
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Originally a big screen movie theatre, the Allwood is still the only remaining small theater in a town that now has a 16 screen multiplex owned by AMC, which makes more money than this local cinema. Two auditoriums have digital sound, while the others have Dolby Stereo and mono sound. Still a cheap way to go to the movies, and easier now that online ticketing is available.
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Justin Fencsak
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To me, it lost all it’s charm when it was cut up. I live less than a mile away and used to go quite often when it was a single. Since the dividing, I’ve gone once!
Yes, Bob, I would I agree. I, too, used to love the original theater and miss the neighborhood intimacy.
Justin, thanks for the update about the theater. In all honesty, I don’t live in New Jersey anymore, so I enjoy hearing about the Allwood Theater.
We ushers used to cut-up and fool around in the back, when no one was looking. I used to love that area in the back, the buffer between the seats and the exit doors to the parking lot.
The ushers used to get stuck with a lot of odd jobs. We liked lugging the film cannisters upstairs to the projection room because we could spend time with Augie and Gene, the projectionists, who taught us things. We hated emptying the spill tank from the soda machine because it was heavy and tended to slosh on the way to the mens room. One of us, didn’t make it.
The longest running movie from those days was Dr. Zhivago, which we had for three consecutive weeks. The theater charged $1.75, an unheard of price in those days, when weeknight admission was $1.00; weekends, $1.25.
$1.75 was uncommon. Harvey, was the projector that showed Dr. Zhivago 70mm or 35mm? Given the size of the theater, it was quite small for a single screen venue compared with the Fabian and the Strand.
Place was packed for a matinee showing of “Fast Five” yesterday, and parking was a bit tough to find – on a Tuesday afternoon in early May, no less. The seven o'clock showing was sold out. A different movie-going experience from the AMC Clifton Commons, that’s for sure.
I think it was because of Free Movie Tuesday yesterday, shanahan.
Ah, that would do it, Justin. Nice little theater, though – not too many neighborhood cinemas like it left these days
I agree. Plus the audience stayed after the main credits for the surprise ending. Advance tickets on sale for Hangover Part II.
Somehow selling out a 50 seat theater is NOT that impressive! The Allwood was a nice single screen neighborhood house, but since then?
50 seats is quite small….how many seats for each auditorium?
The largest screen at this theater is straight down the entrace.