Village Theatre
Boardwalk,
Ocean City,
NJ
Boardwalk,
Ocean City,
NJ
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Opened as Doughty’s Pier around 1900. Initially presented vaudville and then silent movies. Survived a 1927 fire that destroyed much of the boardwalk. When the boardwalk was rebuilt and moved east (closer to the ocean), the theater’s entrance and seating had to be changed to the opposite side of the building. Added a sound system in 1929.
Operated continuously until 1989, when it was sold to a paper company. The building burned to the ground on June 12, 1990.
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Nice photo album:
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Web site updated with more pictures…
http://www.moorlyn.com/Village.htm
Listed as part of Shriver Theatres Co. in the 1976 International Motion Picture Almanac.
Here is a 1940 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2gdxc6
Here are five pages of photos. Click on the next button for each page.
Am I correct in remembering that this was the nicest theater in Ocean City, NJ, in the mid-1950s? If so, it’s where I saw “To Catch a Thief” in the summer of 1955. – Ed Blank
“Thank you” to everyone who provided pictures of the Village, both exterior and especially the interior shots. The decoration, though minimal, was great in the main auditorium.
I enjoyed seeing the photos showing the billboards on the back of the theater as well as those on the roof. I seem to remember when they actually had advertisements for movies on them (an on-set of old age maybe).
Rahn
Renewing link.
1981 Photo
This was Ocean City’s roadshow theater.