Hollywood Theatre
1525 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
1525 Atlantic Avenue,
Atlantic City,
NJ
08401
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The Hollywood Theatre opened on November 2nd, 1934, with Georgie Price on stage. Grand opening ad posted.
Yes in the summer of 69 they played I Am Curious Yellow which was x rated and they had a cop stationed outside.
Adult movies 1973-1975.
A January 6, 1951, Boxoffice item about Harry Waxmann says that the Hollywood Theatre opened as the Royal in 1930, was bought by Waxmann in 1934 and remodeled. It doesn’t give the year of remodeling but it was certainly the 1936 project by David Supowitz, which is one of four remodeling projects illustrating an article by the architect in Boxoffice of July 25, 1936.
Here is another 1968 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/p5vs4j
Here is a 1968 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/delnv3
Renewing link.
Here is a blurb from Boxoffice magazine, April 1950:
Harry Waxmann is remodeling his Hollywood Theater in Atlantic City, so that the house will be in tip-top condition when the summer season begins.
Here is another photo of the Hollywood, from 1951:
http://206.103.49.193/odds/nj/htm/acs39.htm
Status can be made Closed/Demolished. This block of Atlantic Avenue is now occupied by a strip mall and its parking lots.
The last year the Hollywood was open was 1977. The opened on Memorial day weekend with King KOng and closed the following week with no explaination
Does anybody have any other information on the other Atlantic CIty theaters, the Roxy, Apollo, Virgina, Strand, Beach. Please e mail me at
The Hollywood building was up until at least the early ‘80s—I remember seeing it out the window on a casino bus trip. It was not open when I saw it, but that was during the winter and it might still have been open seasonally. If it has not been demolished since then, it has been converted to another use. The last cinema to operate in Atlantic City was the Beach Theatre, which was gutted by a fire in the late '80s or early '90s.
I believe that the approximate dating of the photo of the Atlantic City Hollywood and Colonial theaters should be late February to late March of 1947. The clues to this dating being that there is snow on the ground and the main feature on the marquee of the Colonial appears to be “THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS”. This Warner feature premiered on December 25, 1946 and went into general release on February 8, 1947. Although it was reissued by Dominant Pictures in 1956, the photo looks more 40’s than mid 1950’s.