Fine Arts Theater
37 Lexington Avenue,
Passaic,
NJ
07055
37 Lexington Avenue,
Passaic,
NJ
07055
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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?
Listed as the Lincoln Theatre in the 1944 FDY.
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!
Tonight for Sure was a nudie directed by Francis Ford Coppola!!!
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Check out this 1963 ad for “Tonight for Sure”, courtesy of Bill Huelbig:
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Looks like “Fine Arts” = XXX
The site of this theatre is now an empty lot.