Steel Pier Theatre & Steel Pier Ocean Theatre
1000 Boardwalk,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
1000 Boardwalk,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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The Steel Pier Theatre was opened in 1898, and seated 1,200. It was listed on its own in the 1926 edition of Film Daily Yearbook. By the 1931 edition of F.D.Y. the Steel Pier Theatre is listed with 2,000 seats, and the Steel Pier Ocean Theatre at the Boardwalk end of the pier was listed with 1,400 seats. The Ocean Theatre was reopened on December 25, 1953 with Bob Hope in “Here Come the Girls”. It was operated by Hamid Theatres. It had a seating capacity for 2,300 and the proscenium was 40ft wide. It was closed in 1954. The Steel Pier Theatre was closed in 1975. The site is now an amusement park.
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walterk, you back in jersey?
markP you remember the Steele Pier?
markp, I'll be around for a bit starting the end of next week (21st). Hopefully you won't be so tied up with Dunkirk that we'll get a chance to hang out. I'll email you shortly.
Speaking of Dunkirk, I might opt to see it at the Regal, the much nearer alternative for me managed to scratch their print of Hateful Eight by time I got to view it.
Mikeoaklandpark, yes I remember it vaguely from the early 70’s when my parents took me there. walterk, as of now my schedule looks like I will have off all day and night on Saturdays, and Tuesday and Thursday nights. Still not confirmed.
Mikeoaklandpark, yes I remember it vaguely from the early 70’s when my parents took me there. walterk, as of now my schedule looks like I will have off all day and night on Saturdays, and Tuesday and Thursday nights. Still not confirmed.
Stopped showing movies in 1975.
The Ocean theatre in the Steel Pier opened on Christmas Day, 1953 and the listings stopped in 1954.
The Wikipedia article mentions that there was three movie theatres on the pier.
Thanks Rivest I had no clue there was a separate theater there called the Ocean. The three theaters in the Steel Pier in the 60’s-70’s was the Music Hall, Casino and Midway. The Music Hall had a movies followed by a vaudeville show. The Casino had only movies and the Midway had The Tony Grant stars of tomorrow. In 73 Hamid sold the Steel Pier to the guys who owned Million Dollar Pier. They demolished the huge Musical Hall theater to put in International Thrill rides. It was a flop. They moved the stage shows to the Casino and it was not even close to what they had been. Not only did they remove the great screen they had but they put in a small screen that was about the size of a home movie screen. The first year a tropical storm came and destroyed all the rides.
March 18, 1951 photo from Duke University Libraries. Enlargeable within link.
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/rcmaxwellco/XXX5575
Facebook page dedicated to Steel Pier with hundreds of photos.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063574932118