Point 4 Theatre
4 MacArthur Boulevard,
Somers Point,
NJ
08244
4 MacArthur Boulevard,
Somers Point,
NJ
08244
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Opened June 17th, 1983.
Frank Point 4 opening 17 Jun 1983, Fri Press of Atlantic City (Atlantic City, New Jersey) Newspapers.com
The TGI Fridays is closed. There is a vacant lot adjacent which was probably the theater.
We installed two RCA Centry projectors from the Manahawkin Drive-in in autitorium’s 3&4, booth #2 with a 5 teir Christe platters in the middle. I can’t remember what projector heads we put in booth #1. I also worked there as manager/projection along with the legendary Jim Layman in 1984. Doug Rieck of Long Beach Island was the circiut tech. I got alot of complaints about the sight lines. If some one sat down three or four rows in front of you, their head would be in the way. Hey, the place was a gutted out old bowling ally. “THE FRANKS” put a Hillary’s Ice Cream Parlor in the lobby, but the city made them take it out.
I went to numerous birthday parties when this theater was a bowling alley in the 1970s.
Small theatres, small screens, no masking, poor projected image quality …. this poor excuse for a movie theatre sent more people out to buy a Sony Betamax than Sony’s own advertising campain.
20 is probably the address as the numbers seem to start at the circle and there are at least two buildings (the Point Diner and DiOrio’s Circle Cafe) on that side of the road between the circle and the theater property. I get listings for a T.G.I. Friday’s at 18 or 18-20, so that is most likely the current occupant of the site.
Frank theaters ruined everyhitn they got their hadns on. They ruined all the Wildwood theaters and Ocean City theaters by chopping up good theaters. I am not sure what happened but they sold out to Hoytt theaters and then all of a sudden they were back as a chain. Hoytt closed all the Wildwood theaters except the Shore and they only kept that open one year. I know the Strand is in operation, the Shore is owned by Morey’s Pier and used for storage. I am not sure what happened to the Ocean. That was Hunt’s most beautiful theater used for roadshow engagements. The idiot Frank’s twined it in 1989 and ruined it.