Oakland Twin
14 Post Road,
Oakland,
NJ
07436
14 Post Road,
Oakland,
NJ
07436
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Yes, the final two films were Dead Again and Necessary Roughness on 10/17/91. Last day “Open” time clock and next day “Closed” time clock posted in the pictures section.
Neat! Its very strange that newspaper advertisements show the theater into as far late as August 1993, almost two years after its closure.
Closed permanently in October 1991. I was the manager at the time.
Most likely closed around August 1993.
This opened on October 25th, 1974. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
I was wondering what happened to this place. I saw my first movie without an adult here in 1980 — Meatballs with the great Bill Murray. I’m not sure theaters in Kinnelon helped close this place… most Oakland residents I knew went to see movies in Ridgewood or Paramus.
From the summer of 1991 to the end, this theatre was operated by the Galaxy Theatre Corporation. They cleaned it up, and tried various programming and pricing policies, none of which were successfull. Shop-Right wanted the space for expansion, so the mall bought out the lease.
This movie theatre during it’s final year showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight on Saturdays, I think, was renovated, and beacame a $2.50 discount house. Some final movies that played there were,“Edward Scissorhands,” “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead,” “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves,” “Decieved,” and “Freddy’s Dead” aka “A Nightmare On Elm Street 6,” which was formatted in 3-D.
Owned by Roberts theatres, the mall has been compleatly revamped, no evidence of the cinema is left (as Shoprite expaned the mall’s layout shifted). The final shows occured in, I wana say 1993-ish. I think the Kinnalon Mall 8’s opening could have been the final nail its coffin. The theater was a discount house before closing.
Weirdly I remember they got a new sign in front before they closed. Now it bares the Shop Rite logo.
Listed in the 1/17/91 edition of the Star Ledger as the “Roberts Oakland Twin”.