396-398 Hawthorne is now Pathways Academy school and Newark Boys & Girls Club. From the side of the building, it appears to be the former theater. http://tinyurl.com/56gk6d
It looks like the entire block between Hunterdon & Peshine has been plowed under and replaced by housing. This is on the odd side of the street, between 450 and 460, more or less. After you cross Hunterdon, the businesses are numbered in the 470s and 480s. I don’t believe the theater is still around, but I can’t say that definitively.
I don’t know if 1520 is the correct address. As pointed out previously, the street name is Solano. There is a martial arts place at 1516 and a soul food restaurant at 1526. Down the street, on the odd side, is an interesting building with what looks to be a vertical blade. Lots of windows for a former theater building, though.
Addendum: There is an inscription of “McGavick Building 1900” on the top of the Mexican restaurant. Since the two buildings are essentially one piece, that would date this building back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
There is a Mexican restaurant, address 618 Fourth Street, immediately to the right of this building. After this building there are several parking lots. Although the building looks old given the ads on the side, it could be anywhere from 620-628 Fourth, meaning the theater adjacent to it would be demolished. This is all speculation, however. http://tinyurl.com/6ge3tu
Unless the address has changed, I would say this theater is gone. Stella’s Pizza is at 2332, and a transmission shop is next door at 2338. Connecting them is a stone arch with nothing behind it, which would be 2334.
I can’t find any current showtimes, but that’s not always definitive.
If you scroll about a quarter of the way down, there is an interesting treatise on the Rialto and some other El Dorado theaters here. It’s the first article in Volume 2 of the journal. http://tinyurl.com/6yk6ej
I don’t think that many people understand that you can find the photo on Google maps. I think people are more apt to click on the link than to surmise that they can see the photo on Google. Besides, three quarters of the country hasn’t been photographed yet. You would have to first go on Google, ascertain that the location has been photographed, and then determine that the building in the photo is the theater. Since many of the shots have the former theater off center, or not visible at all, I have done the work of following the arrows and figuring out which building is the theater. In cases where I can’t identify the former building, I don’t bother to post a photo.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5q9vrw
The church has a slideshow with several views of the interior:
http://www.fmbcnewark.com/
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6pvgmu
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5f9v8u
The vacant land is on the even side of the street. The odd side is a set of houses which look relatively new.
If I have to work all day on July 4th, and July 5th, allow me a little speculation to ease the pain.
396-398 Hawthorne is now Pathways Academy school and Newark Boys & Girls Club. From the side of the building, it appears to be the former theater.
http://tinyurl.com/56gk6d
It looks like the entire block between Hunterdon & Peshine has been plowed under and replaced by housing. This is on the odd side of the street, between 450 and 460, more or less. After you cross Hunterdon, the businesses are numbered in the 470s and 480s. I don’t believe the theater is still around, but I can’t say that definitively.
We’re getting locked out of the larger views due to password issues.
The current occupant is the Afrikan Village church. The building doesn’t much resemble a theater these days:
http://tinyurl.com/56kgzy
Here is a July 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6kn449
The church has a photo of the building on their site:
http://tinyurl.com/6ntcza
I don’t know.
I don’t know if 1520 is the correct address. As pointed out previously, the street name is Solano. There is a martial arts place at 1516 and a soul food restaurant at 1526. Down the street, on the odd side, is an interesting building with what looks to be a vertical blade. Lots of windows for a former theater building, though.
Addendum: There is an inscription of “McGavick Building 1900” on the top of the Mexican restaurant. Since the two buildings are essentially one piece, that would date this building back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
There is a Mexican restaurant, address 618 Fourth Street, immediately to the right of this building. After this building there are several parking lots. Although the building looks old given the ads on the side, it could be anywhere from 620-628 Fourth, meaning the theater adjacent to it would be demolished. This is all speculation, however.
http://tinyurl.com/6ge3tu
There may have been a small building at 2336 that has glommed onto the tanning salon.
There’s nothing between 2332 and 2338. The pizza place looks too narrow to be a theater. The tanning building looks new.
There is another photo on this page. Happy Fourth from the Colonies!
http://tinyurl.com/5bvql4
The theater can be seen in this mini-documentary by Gary Graver, at approximately 4:30 minutes:
http://tinyurl.com/67k2zd
My mistake, it’s a tanning salon, not a transmission shop. The two are easily confused, of course.
Unless the address has changed, I would say this theater is gone. Stella’s Pizza is at 2332, and a transmission shop is next door at 2338. Connecting them is a stone arch with nothing behind it, which would be 2334.
I can’t find any current showtimes, but that’s not always definitive.
If you scroll about a quarter of the way down, there is an interesting treatise on the Rialto and some other El Dorado theaters here. It’s the first article in Volume 2 of the journal.
http://tinyurl.com/6yk6ej
I don’t think that many people understand that you can find the photo on Google maps. I think people are more apt to click on the link than to surmise that they can see the photo on Google. Besides, three quarters of the country hasn’t been photographed yet. You would have to first go on Google, ascertain that the location has been photographed, and then determine that the building in the photo is the theater. Since many of the shots have the former theater off center, or not visible at all, I have done the work of following the arrows and figuring out which building is the theater. In cases where I can’t identify the former building, I don’t bother to post a photo.
I don’t think so.