Fine Arts Theater
37 Lexington Avenue,
Passaic,
NJ
07055
37 Lexington Avenue,
Passaic,
NJ
07055
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Listed as the Lincoln Theater in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook.
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The site of this theatre is now an empty lot.
Check out this 1963 ad for “Tonight for Sure”, courtesy of Bill Huelbig:
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Looks like “Fine Arts” = XXX
Tonight for Sure was a nudie directed by Francis Ford Coppola!!!
Click here.
Sometime around 1961=2 the Fine Arts was severely damaged by a firebomb placed in the auditorium. A salvage company was allowed in to retrieve equipment from the projection booth and the rest of the structure was demolished within a couple of days. It would seem that even the innocuous fare like the Coppola pic was unnacceptable to at least one intolerant person!
Listed as the Lincoln Theatre in the 1944 FDY.
This 1916 book attributes the design of a proposed (but as yet unnamed) theater to be built at Lexington and Main Avenues to Abraham Preiskel (most other sources give this architect’s as Abram Preiskel.) I wonder if that could have been this theater?