Fort Hancock Theater

National Park Service - Sandy Hook Unit,
Fort Hancock, NJ 07732

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ghamilton
ghamilton on August 20, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Sure looks similar to the one at Ft.Douglas,Ut.

lostmemory
lostmemory on August 20, 2008 at 8:27 am

Here is a photo of the theater in Fort Hancock.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 7, 2005 at 1:52 pm

The Fort Hancock Theater was built in 1933 and has 300 seats.

MagicLantern
MagicLantern on July 6, 2005 at 9:44 pm

Here’s a bunch of them in California: http://www.militarynewcomers.com/Theater.htm

ghamilton
ghamilton on July 6, 2005 at 2:10 pm

This posting took me to the fact that there are MANY theaters on current and former military bases around the country.Some are simple wooden stuctures that look like they were built from left over parts or materials from the “temporary"WWII barracks.Take little Ft Pickett,Va.It has two theaters,one dating from WWII,one built in the 50’s or 60’s that still shows movies.Ft Douglas,Ut has a nice old brick theater that I think was built in the 30’s.I could go on and on.Sadly many really nice theaters have been destroyed.A beautiful stone one at Camp Blanding,Fla.comes to mind.We could start a whole new site,just for military theaters.Ft.Lee ,VA uses theirs as a very active community theater site.