Grove International Theater

346 16th Avenue,
Irvington, NJ 07111

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Jake Bottero
Jake Bottero on May 21, 2021 at 3:18 pm

All the beauty of the original has been removed. The ornate building next door is still there.

elmorovivo
elmorovivo on August 9, 2015 at 8:47 am

The section of Irvington where this theater was located was in 1940 [midst of II World War], heavily populated by German- Americans. Ethnic suspicions ran rampart in the United States at the time. Pressures from anything connected to Germany drove the owners to change the name of the theater to the Grove.

teecee
teecee on July 28, 2006 at 11:06 pm

Oddly enough, may have been known as the Hindenburg Theater in 1940:
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teecee
teecee on July 5, 2005 at 11:37 am

A Robert Morton organ was installed in this theater in 1926. After it was moved to the Capitol Theatre in South River, NJ, the Grove theatre bought another Robert Morton in 1928.

teecee
teecee on June 30, 2005 at 5:37 pm

“(Gary)Heckel, whose family owned the Grove Theater in Irvington when he was a child, connected with Roberts accidentally when he took a fill-in projectionist job at the Chatham theater some 20 years ago.”

The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), March 25, 2003 p022

teecee
teecee on April 1, 2005 at 5:35 pm

Listed as open in the 1951 FDY.