Lavallette Theater
Grand Central Avenue,
Lavallette,
NJ
08735
Grand Central Avenue,
Lavallette,
NJ
08735
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This was a wonderful old theater one of many the dotted the barrier island on the jersey shore only opened in summer .In the 70’s it showed such movies as Poiseidon Adventure, High Plains Drifter, Bedknobs and Broomsticks..would fill up with families at night and be a wild matinee place with kids on rainy days.
No AC , but 2 giant fans under the stage..sometimes on esp warm nights they would leave the side doors open- a neighbor had a flock of chickens or ducks and they would occassionaly stroll through squaking The longtime manger for over forty years was a guy named Jimmy Cagney -no not that Jimmy Cagney but a true character nevertheless.
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The name of the town should have two “L"s. Lavallette, NJ 08735 That raises a question, does the name of this theater have two "L"s also?
“Despite this laissez-faire attitude toward history, much of old Lavallette remains; of particular interest are the Lavallette Hotel on Grand Central Avenue and the Lavallette Theater to the south, whose stucco alterations suggest an effort to streamline and modernize."
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1975 Thomas Carr and Earle Heckeroth Jr., who one year ago purchased the Algonquin Theater, take over operation of the Lavallette Cinema in April.
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Listed in the 1944 Film Daily Yearbook as closed with 540 seats.
Listed in the 1951 & 1956 versions with 248 seats. None list a street address. Perhaps there was a larger predecessor theatre of the same name?
Was here once in the 1970s. Dad took me to see “Support Your Local Gunfighter” — a comedy western. I remember the two big fans and the lack of air-conditioning. It was old and plain. I liked it.
From Lavallette a photo postcard image of the Lavallette Theater.