I grew up in Roselle Park during the late 70s to mid 80s, saw many movies there including Red Dawn, Purple Rain and Return of the Jedi, me and a freind sat there all day and watched Jedi like 4 times and no one said a word. At some point I remember seeing a sign in the window that it was owned by Consolidated Theaters, the place was not maintained and was in bad shape, you could see that peices of the paint hwere falling away from the ceiling.Story is at some point the new fire code was in place due to the tragedy at Great Adventure and would have required the place to have sprinklers installed so it closed, some years later I was walking by and saw a side door open and the place was being extensivly renovated to its original condition, the celings where all repainted, it looked incredible, then someome changed there mind and covered all the beautiful work and split the old place up
I grew up in Roselle Park during the late 70s to mid 80s, saw many movies there including Red Dawn, Purple Rain and Return of the Jedi, me and a freind sat there all day and watched Jedi like 4 times and no one said a word. At some point I remember seeing a sign in the window that it was owned by Consolidated Theaters, the place was not maintained and was in bad shape, you could see that peices of the paint hwere falling away from the ceiling.Story is at some point the new fire code was in place due to the tragedy at Great Adventure and would have required the place to have sprinklers installed so it closed, some years later I was walking by and saw a side door open and the place was being extensivly renovated to its original condition, the celings where all repainted, it looked incredible, then someome changed there mind and covered all the beautiful work and split the old place up