Rialto Theatre
118 Hudson Street,
Hoboken,
NJ
07030
118 Hudson Street,
Hoboken,
NJ
07030
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This opened as the Empire theatre on September 8th, 1902 and renamed Rialto on September 3rd, 1928 and closed in 1958. 1902 and 1928 grand opening ads posted.
The Empire Theatre was, “one of the handsomest and costliest and most luxuriously appointed theatres in the state”. It was designed by architects J. B. McElfatrick and Sons, N.Y.
Opened as the Empire Theatre in 1902 with vaudeville, burlesque and stock theatre and later motion pictures. It was renamed the Rialto Theatre in 1928 and closed in 1958.
From the early 1900s a postcard view of Hudson Street along with the Empire Theatre in Hoboken.
This movie theatre is mentioned in a book entitled “The Jimmy Roselli Story”. Jimmy Roselli and Frank Sinatra were from the same town and lived on the same street. Sinatra was 10 years older than Roselli.
See BORN IN A BEER GARDEN (1930) by Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton and Ogden Nash.
Listed in the 1951 FDY at 118 Hudson Street with 750 seats.