Wellmont Theatre
5 Seymour Street,
Montclair,
NJ
07042
5 Seymour Street,
Montclair,
NJ
07042
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Today’s Star Ledger had a full page story with photo’s about the opening planned for this coming week.
http://www.wellmonttheatre.com/calendar/list/ for the announced shows on sale Saturday morning
It’s very much in construction, I took some pics on Saturday and am going to send them into Cinema Treasures.
Great photo in today’s Star Ledger. Still on track for a fall opening. Some acts have already been booked.
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“The Sound of Music”’s first North Jersey release after the roadshow engagements:
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Leon: Glad you liked the ads. You can see many more of them at my Photobucket site (hope it lets you in):
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y231/billhuelbig/
The opening scene of last week’s episode of “Mad Men” took place in Montclair. The character Paul was throwing a party at his apartment there, and he mentions the Wellmont Theatre as one of the cultural high spots in town.
Would be nice if they still had the 70mm equipment and would show 70mm films. I don’t know if the Claridge is still there and the beautiful Bellevue has been chopped up.Would be nice if that would be part of their programming.
Love the Record ads. Bill give us some more of the Record Jersey roadshow ads. When I was very young this is what I read everyday. You can see on the timetable the Hackensack Fox was showing The Sound of Music. This was during the summer of ‘67 and that is when and where I saw the film for the first time. It was still some time before the film came to the local small town theaters.
I think its first run was 5 years.
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I worked at the Wellmont Theatre while in high school. So, I can tell you that the Wellmont was on 400 Bloomfield Ave. with a huge beautiful marquee, until about 1988 (the late 1980’s). The Wellmont was owned by Mr. Roberts of Robeert’s Theatres, and he sold the building. That was when the marquee was distroyed and the Bloomfield Ave entrance and lobby was converted into a store-front. What a shame!! I have some very fun memories and stories about the Wellmont Theatre. The price of tickets was $4.50 adult and $2.00 children and seniors when I started and then increased to $5.00 adult and $2.50 children and seniors. I will post some of my fun stories another time. :–)
I’ve been meaning to post this for a few weeks, from the NYTimes.
The historic Wellmont Theater in Montclair, N.J., is to reopen in the fall, a newly formed independent concert-promotion company has announced. The promoter, Montclair Entertainment, comprises principals of the independent promotion company the Bowery Presents â€"owners of the Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge as well as the recently opened Terminal 5 and Music Hall of Williamsburg â€" along with Andy Feltz, who brought shows to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan for two decades and recently to the United Palace, also in Manhattan. This will be Bowery Presents’ first major foray into New Jersey, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. The theater, which originally opened in 1922 in downtown Montclair, will undergo a roughly $3 million makeover.
I am glad to know another theatre will be saved and used as a live performance center.
It was just announced that this theater will recieve an approximate $3MM renovation and reopen this summer as a concert and entertainment venue. Another rescued theater!
The Wellmont played the exclusive North Jersey roadshow engagement of “Hawaii” in 1967 (see the right side of this ad):
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STATUS SHOULD BE CLOSED
Another Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 1961, a 3 Manual/11 Rank was shipped to this theater on September 29, 1928. It was sold and shipped to a residence in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1961. At the same time that residence in Erie also received WuliTzer Opus 1908, a 3/15 that had been shipped to the Kenmore Theater, Brooklyn, New York on July 17, 1928. It had then gone to Babylon New York and then to Erie. The 2 organs were “OK” in 1961. If you know any thing about the organs, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer/WurliTzer!"
STATUS should be Closed
To save yourself some clicking,the only results you will get from clicking will be from the 4 photos on September 13, 2006 and THIS from January 19, 2008.
Are any of the retail or apartments being used?
A Mighty WurliTzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 6, a 3 Manual/13 Rank was shipped to the Century Theater in New York, New York in 1912. It was then sold to the Montclair Theater in Montclair, New Jersey. From that theater it was sold to the Wellmont Theater. It is thought to have been junked. If you know anything about this organ, please email us!
“Gee Dad, it "WAS” a WurliTzer!"
Updated article in today’s Star Ledger. Sounds like the new owner wants to do this right. Can’t wait for the reopening.
An article in the 8/17/07 Star Ledger states that the theater has been sold and plans are in place to make it a live concert venue.
According to Images in America: Montclair, page 83, the organ installed in the Wellmont came from the Montclair Theatre.
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Caption in the attached photo lists opening in 1923:
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August 1981 photos:
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Another one:
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Nice old photo:
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Here is the latest news. Note the reference to CT at the beginning of the article:
http://tinyurl.com/ehvwx