Colony Theatre

Hi my name ie marisol Zenonlived upstairs from the theater back in 1971 I was born I’m weehawken hospital and lived there till I was 8 years old I loved leaving there and was sad to move when the owner sold it a lot of Spanish movies where seen there like toño bicicleta if there are more picks please post them I have pics from there playing in the snow the good old days the apartment was big

The Colony theater in Union City was owned by my family Orjelick-Theaters. At its peak my grandfather owned 15 movie theatres. Many closed prior to when I was born in 1976. They were small family theaters that usually had 1-2 screens. Many of theaters included spanish films at one time. In an article I found about the Orjelick-Theatres dated June 11, 1987 it stated, “One by one, those theatres went under unable to survive the advent of the suburban multi-screen franchise cinema…By the 1980’s the Orjelick-Theatres had dwindled down to three properties to include the Art Theatre in the Bronx, the New Delancy in Manhattan and the Hoboken Twin in NJ.” The only other theater I remember that my family had owned was called the Coliseum Theater and was located in NY (52nd St & 4th Ave). Best :)

Listed in the 1944 Film Daily Yearbook with 1100 seats.