Moorlyn Stadium 4 Theatre

835 Moorlyn Terrace,
Ocean City, NJ 08226

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As the first large building for recreation on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk, the Moorlyn opened around 1901 as a bowling alley. It was Moore’s Bowling Casino and appears to have been the main attraction on the boardwalk in those early years.

It changed to a movie theater in 1923 and has been one ever since. It was divided in two in 1970 and into four in 1989. Closed for a while, the original building was mostly demolished and rebuilt in a different style. The theatre is now one of only two theaters on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

Now operated by the Frank Theatres chain, it closes temporarily for the Winter season each year.

Contributed by Jim Laymon

Recent comments (view all 42 comments)

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 29, 2008 at 9:59 am

Movies are showing on three screens per today’s AC Press. Phone number is 609-399-0006. Advertised as Moorlyn Stadium Theatre.

nerwall16
nerwall16 on July 7, 2008 at 8:44 pm

do these shore theaters just run seasonal

RickB
RickB on July 8, 2008 at 5:10 am

Some years the Moorlyn has stayed open all winter, other times it hasn’t. The other Ocean City theater, the Strand, has been seasonal only for as long as I can remember.

nerwall16
nerwall16 on July 10, 2008 at 2:18 pm

i was just down there tuesday looking at some theater options, i run the broadway in pitman but the movies are slowly fading away despite my efforts to the live theater

lostmemory
lostmemory on January 30, 2009 at 10:51 am

Here is a photo of the Moorlyn Theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on April 23, 2009 at 8:11 pm

1981 Photo

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 18, 2009 at 1:35 pm

This is a recent photo of the Moorlyn.

RickB
RickB on January 20, 2011 at 4:18 am

For sale, asking $5.5 million. The Strand is also listed at the same price. Frank Theatres still plans to operate both theaters for the 2011 summer season. Video story from NBC Philadelphia here.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 7, 2011 at 6:57 am

A small photo of the Moorlyn’s facade and a slightly larger photo of one wall if the lobby can be seen at the lower left on this page of the March 7, 1936, issue of Boxoffice. The marquee in the 1936 photo was still there in the 1981 photo linked above, but it is gone in the more recent photo.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on May 7, 2011 at 11:04 am

I like the 1981 marquee better.A lot better.

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