396-398 Hawthorne is now Pathways Academy school and Newark Boys & Girls Club. From the side of the building, it appears to be the former theater. http://tinyurl.com/56gk6d
It looks like the entire block between Hunterdon & Peshine has been plowed under and replaced by housing. This is on the odd side of the street, between 450 and 460, more or less. After you cross Hunterdon, the businesses are numbered in the 470s and 480s. I don’t believe the theater is still around, but I can’t say that definitively.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5dn799
Apartments for rent in the building:
http://tinyurl.com/5bkubl
Here is a 1925 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics45/00072367.jpg
Here is a 1956 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics49/00074484.jpg
Here is an undated photo. The name of the business is Saratoga Printing, as was pointed out on 6/23/07.
http://tinyurl.com/5rerl4
This blogger prefers the term “elegant entropy” as opposed to “crumbling before our eyes”:
http://tinyurl.com/69u63c
No, it doesn’t matter. I pointed out the clothing store to show that function should be retail.
Rite Aid is still listed, but that information could be outdated. The building may also be carved into separate businesses that use the same address.
Number seven on this list is a children’s clothing store that occupies at least part of the former theater:
http://tinyurl.com/5vhmmy
Eye of the tiger was Rocky 3, 1982. Rocky 4 was 1990.
Here is an undated photo of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/5k6j2e
The Christ in Faith Baptist Church can be seen in this undated photo. The church was located at 404 S. Orange.
http://tinyurl.com/69utcc
Joe’s Market at 1011 S. Orange looks big enough to have held 1021 seats. It could be the former Mayfair:
http://tinyurl.com/5bv9es
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5q9vrw
The church has a slideshow with several views of the interior:
http://www.fmbcnewark.com/
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6pvgmu
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5f9v8u
The vacant land is on the even side of the street. The odd side is a set of houses which look relatively new.
If I have to work all day on July 4th, and July 5th, allow me a little speculation to ease the pain.
396-398 Hawthorne is now Pathways Academy school and Newark Boys & Girls Club. From the side of the building, it appears to be the former theater.
http://tinyurl.com/56gk6d
It looks like the entire block between Hunterdon & Peshine has been plowed under and replaced by housing. This is on the odd side of the street, between 450 and 460, more or less. After you cross Hunterdon, the businesses are numbered in the 470s and 480s. I don’t believe the theater is still around, but I can’t say that definitively.
We’re getting locked out of the larger views due to password issues.
The current occupant is the Afrikan Village church. The building doesn’t much resemble a theater these days:
http://tinyurl.com/56kgzy
Here is a July 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6kn449
The church has a photo of the building on their site:
http://tinyurl.com/6ntcza