Totowa Cinema
Route 46 near I-80,
Totowa,
NJ
Route 46 near I-80,
Totowa,
NJ
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This began as a single screen cinema in the mid-60s. It looked similar to the GCC Central Plaza (now Clearview) in Yonkers.
Anybody have more info?
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I’d like to make a clarification to an earlier posting of mine.
A couple of posts up I commented on the installation of Dolby Stereo. However, the theater that information applied to is actually a different theater in Totowa, the Cinema 46, which is what I was led to believe was this theater based upon details included in the first two posts in this thread at the top of the page.
I guess I missed Pete Apruzzese’s post about midway through that corrected the claim that this was the Cinema 46. Sorry for any confusion. How many others have been confused by this?
1971 ad when this theater was a part of GC. Not sure if this was an adult theater at the time or if the movie was a “mainstream” X rated release (courtesy of RobertR):
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Seems this theatre was also known as Totowa Twin as seen in a 1982 ad.
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Some of the theatres I saw in the old ad are still around, particulary the Succasunna cinema 10 (in the Atlantic City ad) and the chester theatre. Many of the other theatres, especially the Rockaway theatre and Amboy, are gone. I liked both Totowa theatres, especially the old GC theatre. Last movie Isaw there was the rocketteer.
Here is a 1974 ad from the NY Times:
http://tinyurl.com/ypzasp
The Towering Inferno was released in December of 1974.
Does anyone have any exterior/interior photos of the Totowa Cinema?? I miss that place
The fire occured during the removal of the theatre equipment. The crews were using torches and the walls put up during conversion to a twin caught fire.
Thanks for posting that ad, Ken. I saw “The Towering Inferno” at the Totowa Cinema 1, and I remember wishing it had been at the Cinema 46 down the road because they had a bigger screen.
Here is an April 1969 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/ntc8s6