Shore Theatre
1831 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
1831 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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Neat! Thanks Rivest!
A Cinema theatre opened in December 1929 in Chicago, IL, 50s SNIPES.
This theater was another Hamid theater with no masking or curtains
Question: What’s the oldest theater in America to have the “Cinema” name?
Opened as Cinema on June 29th, 1940.
Cinema opening 29 Jun 1940, Sat Press of Atlantic City (Atlantic City, New Jersey) Newspapers.com
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Renamed Shore on March 28th, 1952. Grand opening ad posted.
Closed by Hamid Theatres in 1973.
m00se1111… It’s unclear to me if you are being genuine or snarky. My query was not a request for tips on how to conduct research (and you’d know this if you were familiar with my hundreds of articles and thousands of internet postings). Anyway, 1962 is the year in question (not 1961). And moreover the NJ State Library does not in fact possess the Atlantic City newspaper for the relevant timeframe.
Did “West Side Story” have a roadshow run at this venue?
This theater should be listed as demolished. The portion of the block where the Shore was located, is now occupied by a large steam and water supply plant, built in 1998 by a company called Conectiv. The facility is shown in the street view above, and is called the Midtown Thermal Control Center.
Rivoli 157 any chance of uplaoding those photo’s of Oliver in 1969?
in the summer of 1969 Oliver! was playing at the Shore. I have pics I took ,but am unable to upload
Looking at Bing Maps for 1831 Atlantic this appears to be gone. Only some newer buildings and vacant lots are on that block.
If the various reports in Boxoffice are correct (and I see no reason to doubt them in this case) then this theater, the last to be called the Shore, was a former burlesque house that was taken over by Harry Waxmann in 1940 and renamed the Cinema, which was its name through 1951. It became the Shore in 1952.
One of Chuck’s comments on the Beach page says that the address of the Cinema was 1831 Atlantic, so that has to be the correct address for this theater. The address 1318 must be the address of the previous Shore Theater, which became the Beach when this house became the Shore.
So the Shore should have the aka Cinema, and the correct address is 1831 Atlantic.
The address given in the description puts this theater about where the Beach was. If the Shore was between Ohio and Atlantic it would not be at 1318. Everything on that block was razed for the gas company building a while ago. Shore was also an aka for the Beach, according to a recent post.
There were at least two Atlantic City houses called the Shore Theatre. This was apparently the last house to have the name. An article in the April 9, 1952, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that Henry Waxmann’s Hollywood Circuit had moved the name Shore Theatre to the former Cinema. The previous Shore Theatre was then re-opened by an independent operator as the Beach Theatre (Crazy Bob got it right in his comment of Sept 18, 2006.)
Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find any other references to a theater called the Cinema in Atlantic City, but from the comments above it sounds like this must have been a pretty old house, and so it might have had still other names, and might not have been called the Cinema for very long before becoming the Shore.
Renewing link.
There aren’t too many buildings, if any, left at this intersection If anyone is around there, let me know if this building is still standing.
Well I saw “David and Basheba” at the Shore in 1951. From what I can recall, it was rather narrow but tall with a balcony. It most likely held 965 people that’s listed for this theatre or more. It wasn’t fancy from what I can recall.
Ken MC
I know you posted a comment in Sept 2006 that I am going to answer now. I Am Curious Yellow played all summer at the Hollywood Theatre. They had police stationed there during th hours of operation. Interesting how in 1970 there was such a fuss about thatmovie. I bet today it would be rated R.
I think that the post card above might be the Beach Theatre. I think that it was also known as City Square. I know that it 3rd floor apartments.
“I am Curious Yellow” played for quite a spell at the Hollywood, around the late sixties.
I believe that the Shore was on the north corner of Ohio Ave., & Greene’s Army- Navy Store was on the south corner. The hospital was one block east.
“I am Curious Yellow” was playing at one of the Atlantic Avenue theaters when I was in elementary school. There was quite a fuss at the time for such a harmless softcore movie.
The Shore was on the corner of Ohio & Atlantic Ave. There was a “Greans Army-Navy store” on the same corner. I met the main projectionist there, Herb Kraig, in 1971. I think I got his name right. He lived in a large house on Chelsea Ave. He was showing “Sexual Pratices In Sweden” & “Tobaco Roody” or somthing like that. The small booth sat in the middle of a very steep balcony. The equipment was Super Simplex & Peerless Magnarcs. Herb refered to the Shore as a “Shooting Gallery”. I think that it was part of the old Warner Bros. circiut.
Ken
The Shore was very plain, it had no masking or curtains.
I saw Oliver in 1969. It must have been at the Shore. I can’t remember much about this theater, though. What was the cross-street?