I remember being a kid back in the 1990’s walking pass this place, and telling my mom that the senior citizen home looks like an old movie theatre, and she thought so too. My family moved to Irvington in 1982 so the theater was gone by then. My aunt who was a teenager back then told me her and her friends hung out at “The Castle” on Clinton at the beginning of Irvington Center. I had no idea that this was a movie theatre for porn in it’s later years! lol
I still live in Irvington. It’s far from the place that you guys have posted. (Can’t wait to move) anyways, I’ve been to “The Castle” maybe 3 or 4 times. I grew up in the late 80’s and 90’s. I believe they closed “The Castle” around 1995 into 1996. It was around the time the Lowes Theatre opened on Springfield Ave in Newark and had multiple screens. I remember me and my brother bugging our dad to take us to see “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” in the Spring of 1993. For me it was only a 10 minute wall to the center. The last movie I saw their was maybe a Muppet movie, but the place was fulling apart by then. I remember my dad saying the floor was so damn sticky. (lol)
Today, you wouldn’t even think it was a theatre except for the once marquee, that now says Avon. The whole Irvington Center is in need of help. I think I grew up in the last few years good years of Irvington. By 1998 things really went down.
I remember being a kid back in the 1990’s walking pass this place, and telling my mom that the senior citizen home looks like an old movie theatre, and she thought so too. My family moved to Irvington in 1982 so the theater was gone by then. My aunt who was a teenager back then told me her and her friends hung out at “The Castle” on Clinton at the beginning of Irvington Center. I had no idea that this was a movie theatre for porn in it’s later years! lol
I still live in Irvington. It’s far from the place that you guys have posted. (Can’t wait to move) anyways, I’ve been to “The Castle” maybe 3 or 4 times. I grew up in the late 80’s and 90’s. I believe they closed “The Castle” around 1995 into 1996. It was around the time the Lowes Theatre opened on Springfield Ave in Newark and had multiple screens. I remember me and my brother bugging our dad to take us to see “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” in the Spring of 1993. For me it was only a 10 minute wall to the center. The last movie I saw their was maybe a Muppet movie, but the place was fulling apart by then. I remember my dad saying the floor was so damn sticky. (lol)
Today, you wouldn’t even think it was a theatre except for the once marquee, that now says Avon. The whole Irvington Center is in need of help. I think I grew up in the last few years good years of Irvington. By 1998 things really went down.