Allwood Sixplex
92 Market Street,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
92 Market Street,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
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The largest screen at this theater is straight down the entrace.
50 seats is quite small….how many seats for each auditorium?
Somehow selling out a 50 seat theater is NOT that impressive! The Allwood was a nice single screen neighborhood house, but since then?
I agree. Plus the audience stayed after the main credits for the surprise ending. Advance tickets on sale for Hangover Part II.
Ah, that would do it, Justin. Nice little theater, though – not too many neighborhood cinemas like it left these days
I think it was because of Free Movie Tuesday yesterday, shanahan.
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.
$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.
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.
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!
I agree Harvey. Seniors still come to this theater more often than in Clifton Commons because of the location and the prices. And thanks to parent company Cablevision’s Free Movie Tuesdays as well as those who use an Optimum Rewards card to save money on buying tickets, this theater will thrive despite being one of the smallest multiplexes I’ve been to in my life.
I used to work at the Allwood Theater. I was an usher from January, 1966 through June, 1967, with so many magical memories and a lifetime of special moments. The theater had one screen in those days and always a local audience, all the regulars, many of them chose the same seat movie after movie. One man always sat one seat in in the very first row, even if rest of the theater was empty.
I grew up in Allwood (the corner of Allwood Road and Orchard Drive). The Allwood Theater will always remain a part of my life.
3D projection now at this theater on one screen.
when it first opened, did this theater have 70mm projection ala cinemascope? And what movie had the longest run at this theater?
looks like edge of darkness is the first movie to be shown in digital projection at this theater. What theater has the digital projection?
any word on when digital projection comes to this theater?
back when it was a quad. I lived there during that time, and went there for so many years before Clifton Commons came. While AMC continues to jack up prices at the megaplex and plans to replace 15 screens with 4k technology, Clearview will still operate the Allwood as a neighborhood small town theater that attracts the poor and elderly residents of the neighborhood who want to see a movie.
Here is a 1988 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d4b6yx
nearly 10 years after Clifton Commons opened and a few months before the new theater in Paterson opens, this is the only surviving small theater in Clifton. If it closes, it will hurt downtown businesses in the Allwood district.
Back in 1996, the Sixplex held a charity showing, which is something that it never does anymore since Clearview took over.
Inside the theater, there used to be a fireplace to evoke that neighborhood feel; is that still there? There is only one box office stand compared with other Clearviews I’ve been to, and the entrance between the front and the box office has posters for future movies. The lobby has a decent candy stand, along with a few arcade machines and poster stands. Out of all the screens in this theater, I like the two with digital sound. Theater 1 has DTS, while theater 2 has Dolby Digital. The other screens have Dolby Stereo. This theater, if it doesn’t close, will become the oldest theater in Clifton.
I read on NJ’s movies forum, that on the monday after the Zohan movie came out, there was a power outage in that area that affected the theater. Thankfully it was back on but soon that nasty storm came by and knocked clifton without power for awhile, affecting this theater and clifton commons.
Acquired by Clearview 6/26/1996.
there was a post on the old clifton quad about how this theater does a bad rap about aspect ratios. it wont be long before clearview closes smaller theaters like this one and keep its larger ones open.
When clearview acquired the allwood, they introducted a pre-show before each movie that played at the six-plex, courtesy of Screenvision. I first noticed this before a screening of “Space Jam” at the theater, as well as another Clearview theatre in Wayne, during a screening of “Star Trek First Contact”. Nowadays, Clearview’s more popular theaters use a digital pre-show as opposed to the analog, which was renamed “The Clearview”. Does the Allwood still use analog pre-show or digital? Seems that this theater will no longer survive and needs a renovation just like theatres with fewer than 10 screens owned by the chain, those that were build after the golden age of hollywood and before that.