Warner Theatre
2015 Boardwalk,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
2015 Boardwalk,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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Here’s a link to newsreel footage of Martin & Lewis attending the 1954 premiere of their “Living It Up”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEtIllFGQ4
The marquee can be seen in this 1941 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2djsago
You can see the marquee in this postcard:
http://snipurl.com/vupme
Here is another view:
http://tinyurl.com/2w47bnh
Here is a 2009 view of the facade:
http://tinyurl.com/y5bt8w9
Too bad they didn’t have color when you took that, it would make a fantastic color photo.
Here is a 1945 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lxoot8
How could you tell.
The Warner was a hot dog place in the 1980s called Boardwalk Rogers:
http://tinyurl.com/nrfdry
Renewing link.
What is behind the facade now? Nothing, or part of the casino?
A better, hi-res scan of the postcard showing the interior can be seen in my flickr stream: View link
As my card wasn’t posted, I can’t say from when it was, but I bet the photo was taken around the opening as is so often the case with postcards promoting a theater.
In 1971, The Steel pier Music Hall had Simplex E-7 projectors & Ashcraft Super High arc lamps. Hall & Connell spot lights. The screen was on a “fly”. The two man projection shift operators were Ed Oliver, & Goerge Innis.
In the Casino Theatre, were a pair of Simplex XL projectors & Peerless Magnarc carbon arc lamps. The operators were Lou Glendenon, & Frank Bernato. I probably messed up their names.
Behind the Casino projection booth was a room with metal letters that ran on a convayor belt. They brushed against electified feelers for the giant marquee chaser sign.
Thanks, Warren, for posting that.
A 1996 article about the Warner Theatre can be found here:
View link
Same thing in Los Angeles. The downtown Warner was the Warren in the seventies.
In 1958, Stanley Warner Corporation sold the Warner Theatre to George Hamid & Sons, with a stipulation that it had to be given a new name that did not connect to the previous ownership. Hamid selected “Warren” because it was a simple re-arrangement of the six letters in “Warner” and would save money on revamping the marquee.
Yes, there are lots of changes in Atlantic City. Most of the old, grand buildings on the boardwalk are gone.
There’s an IMAX over on the walk, which is a batch of stores close to Columbus Park. That area looks like a huge shopping mall. My former school at South Carolina and Pacific is now a Marriott hotel.
Ken, Any interesting changes in Atlantic City? Is there a functioning moviehouse of any kind within a mile or two of the area where the many Boardwalk and Atlantic Avenue theaters used to be?
I’m not sure about the eligibility. The theaters were part of the amusement pier and never really had their own identity. We had this discussion a while ago about the theater on the Queen Mary. I will take some pictures if I get over that way, though.
Ken, Sure would appreciate it if you’d take a photo of what’s left of Steel Pier and open the blog on Steel Pier with it. I’m sure many of us would like to contribute to that link. It had three moviehouses within it(though only two were used for films during the second part of the 20th Century), so it should be eligible. – Ed Blank
I’m going back to Atlantic City this weekend. I would take some pictures but offhand I can’t recall any theaters that are still standing. Even the Warner is down to a facade.
Thanks, all. Saved me a trip to the A.C. library.
The Roxy is here:
/theaters/11706/