Hollywood Theatre
1525 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
1525 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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The Hollywood Theatre was located on Atlantic Avenue, next to the smaller Colonial Theatre (later renamed the Center Theatre).
The Hollywood Theatre opened in 1936, as a last run theatre, owned by Harry Waxman, and was designed by Philadelphia architect David Supowitz. The old Aldine Theatre was gutted to the walls, for the remodel. The marquee and vertical were both huge, and brilliantly lit with neon. A 1936 photograph shows the marquee advertizing ‘Stage Presentation Revue’ and ‘De Luxe Stage Shows’ and ‘Pops and Louie’, ‘The Danwills’, Hickey Bros', Al Verdi & Co' and then on three lines ‘Mary Astor’ in “Lady From Nowhere” with ‘Charles Quigley’. Inside there were murals depicting Arabian Nights.
The Hollywood Theatre closed in 1977, the weeks after Memorial Day weekend with “King Kong” as its last feature. It has since been demolished.
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The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website names David Supowitz as the Hollywood’s architect, with a date of 1936.
The last year the Hollywood was open was 1977. The opened on Memorial day weekend with King KOng and closed the following week with no explaination
Does anybody have any other information on the other Atlantic CIty theaters, the Roxy, Apollo, Virgina, Strand, Beach. Please e mail me at
Status can be made Closed/Demolished. This block of Atlantic Avenue is now occupied by a strip mall and its parking lots.
Here is another photo of the Hollywood, from 1951:
http://206.103.49.193/odds/nj/htm/acs39.htm
Here is a blurb from Boxoffice magazine, April 1950:
Harry Waxmann is remodeling his Hollywood Theater in Atlantic City, so that the house will be in tip-top condition when the summer season begins.
Renewing link.
Here is a 1968 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/delnv3
Here is another 1968 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/p5vs4j
A January 6, 1951, Boxoffice item about Harry Waxmann says that the Hollywood Theatre opened as the Royal in 1930, was bought by Waxmann in 1934 and remodeled. It doesn’t give the year of remodeling but it was certainly the 1936 project by David Supowitz, which is one of four remodeling projects illustrating an article by the architect in Boxoffice of July 25, 1936.
A photo of the Hollywood’s auditorium is marked #4 in this 1936 collection: boxofficemagazine