Franklin Theatre
510 Franklin Avenue,
Nutley,
NJ
07110
510 Franklin Avenue,
Nutley,
NJ
07110
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Wasn’t it closed in 2000? Charlie’s angels was one of the last major movies to play here before it’s transformation into retail space…
Some of them were big movies. Last time i went was way back in 1999 when i saw She’s All That. The audio was ok. Projection was good.
The left and right auditoriums were small and had mono sound. The middle screen was the largest and had dolby stereo and 5.1 DTS although the sound was echoey.
Wonderful pic of this beautiful marquee. A tear like blur of an image. Any interior images of this lovely old theatre?
I grew up in Nutley many years ago and back then the Franklin theatre had only one screen in a single auditorium. The Style B Wurlitzer still exists in a private home in Northern New Jersey.
The organ i believe was in the central auditorium. The employees of the theater were very nice.
A small Wurlitzer pipe organ opus 1383, a Style B, was installed here in the summer of 1926.
I think this theater didn’t have that kind of projection as the closest theater in that area were Cinema 23 (now closed as of last week), the Bellevue, Clairidge (now cut down to a six-plex showing indie films), and the original Essex Green triplex.
Later this year marks the 10th anniversary of when this theater was closed and then transformed into a shopping center. Did this theater have 70mm projection in the center auditorium?
According to what I read on some online forum, the wall collapse happened during a movie showing, of which none attended.
Ok here are the pictures for the Franklin Theater and sorry for the delay :)
http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=image1mew.jpg
It looks like it has quite a few tenants. I think it’s now called “Franklin Center”.
Hi Justin the building is still there but you would not think that it was a movie house once I had taken some pictures but lost the film but I will go this weekend and take new pictures with my cell phone.
What is the building at 510 Franklin that is seen in the Google photo? It looks to be in good shape. Is that the theater, or a new building?
next year will be nearly 10 years since the theater closed. Status should be changed to demolished and the year of closing is the fall of 2000. The last movie that played there that was huge was Charlie’s Angels 1.
what will be replaced?
The interior was gutted to the brick walls several years ago. There is no longer a theater to get damaged.
last night there was a big storm…was this theater damaged again?
any word if the theater will be rebuilt?
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this link tells of one NYTimes reporter’s love for the theater and the impact the new Clifton commons theater had on its attendance. BTW, what’s the latest on the theater, LUISMEL? Is it gone for good? Send me some recent pictures!!!
The building is still there I took some pictures of it and will post along with some of what use to be the Caribe Theater and the Elwood Theater.
I heard that there was police activity on Franklin Ave. When I used Google maps, the business was a burger place near E. High St., just blocks from the long-gone business. On the WCBS traffic site, it mentioned that a sign was falling; luckily, I heard on the traffic channel from Cablevision that the crew safely removed the sign. This is another reason while Franklin Avenue is decaying in the 21st century. First, the theater. Now, an old burger joint. BTW, what became of the former staff that worked at the theater years before it closed? I knew that there was a young lady who worked there near the main auditorium. And what’s up with the building? It’s been nearly a year since the last comment.
1969 ad (bottom left for Hellfighters) courtesy of Bill Huelbig:
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Listed in the 1944 FDY as a Warner Bros Theater. Listed in the 1961 FDY as part of Triangle-Liggett Theatre Sercice & in the 1970 FDY as part of Triangle Theatre Service Inc.
Listed as a 3 screen independent theatre in the 1991 International Motion Picture Almanac. Owner is P. Vivian.