Lincoln Cinemas
838 Kearny Avenue,
Kearny,
NJ
07032
838 Kearny Avenue,
Kearny,
NJ
07032
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Previously operated by: Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Previous Names: Lincoln Theater
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Located in the North Arlington district of Kearny, the Lincoln Theater was opened in 1934. By 1941 it was operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp. I remember this theater as a single screen theater, it had a great lobby and a great old feel to it. It was converted into a triple screen theater in the 1970’s. It later became a six screen cinema, the original theater just chopped into six pieces. It was closed in August 2015.
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I spent many Saturday afternoons here in the 60’s. I also performed on the stage here every June during those years since I attended dance classes in the Judi Terri Dance School which was above the theatre and the school rented the theatre every year for our recital. It was exciting being “back stage” there – although small it was still very exciting. I cannot even imagine it being split into a 7 screen theatre. I will have to go back just to see how they did this. I am wondering if the bathrooms are still down that awful staircase!!!! Boy did this bring back memories – so much that last night I actually did go to the old Rutherford Rivoli which is now the Williams Center and boy was that a trip!!!!! Me and my granddaughter were the only people in the small theatre to see the 7:00 showing of the movie “Shorts” – I guess because it was Sunday of Labor Day weekend, but still…………….
Here is a January 2009 item about a fire at the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/yddkw2p
Dear Debbie Annett, I hope you can help. I am trying to trace a friend from my past. Her name was BETTY THOMSON, married name BETTY CARPENTER, SHE had a son GLEN CARPENTER, and she taught dancing at THE JUDI-TERRI DANCING SCHOOL,in Kearney NJ… she was assistant to MISS HONEY at one time. Originally she came from GREENOCK in SCOTLAND and won many prizes in HIGHLAND DANCING. My website is
www.joegordonandsallylogan.co.uk
***or anyone else who can help me! Thanks Sally Gordon.
Dear Sally Gordon,
I do remember Miss Honey, she was the owner of the dance studio. she had a daughter named Judi Terri which was why it was name that. Their last name was something like Novelli. I remember another dance teacher named Miss Eleanor and it there were others my memory is failing me or they came after I was gone. I took lessons there from around 1958 till 1965-66. I am not sure when your friend Betty was there. Sorry I could not be of help in finding her.
Debbie
Thank you so much for your reply. Perhaps when your talking to others someone may remember her, you can pass on my contact info if you wish, All the best, Sally Gordon.
Ok we called this theatre the “Stinking Lincoln” after a fire in the mid 70’s. The last movie I remember seeing was “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” before it was split up. Funny note after the Lincoln was turned into 3 theaters, the marquee read “3x Theater” or as or as our parent thought xxx theater, and would not let us go there any more!
I live in Newark and I started going to this theater in the early ‘80s. So, I only remember it as a Triplex. I saw “Q, the Winged Serpent”, “Ghostbusters”, “The Last Starfighter”, “The Goonies”, “The NeverEnding Story”. I stopped going there often when the Jackson Street Bridge closed in Newark in '84, which was a quick and easy way to get there. I know I went back a couple times after and saw “Back to the Future”, “Teen Wolf”, “La Bamba”, “Gremlins 2”, “Another 48 Hours”…but it was a craphole by 1990…haven’t been there since.
The status of Lincoln Theater needs to be changed to closed. The theater closed sometime in 2014.
We were calling it the “stinkin' Lincoln” in the 80s, too. I saw E.T., The Return of the Jedi (and Spaceballs), Police Academy 6, Home Alone, Titanic, and other films there. It was a triplex then; I was long gone by the time it was converted to six screens. Never a great theater, but it was the only one in walking distance of my childhood home at the time.
The theater closed the end of August 2015. the last movies playing there were Fantastic Four, Inside Out, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, Minions, and Hitman Agent 47. The theater just got Hitman 47 movie that weekend to make room for it they got rid of Pixels movie.
DOSE ANYBODY KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND OLD PICTUERS OF THE THEATER? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE DURING THE 1920S