Clinton Point Theatre
189 Center Street,
Clinton,
NJ
08809
189 Center Street,
Clinton,
NJ
08809
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The Clinton Point Theatre was opened in 1935. Listed in the 1944 Film Daily Yearbook (500 seats), the 1951 FDY (408 seats), the 1956 FDY (408 seats), this theatre was part of Brandt Theatres. Still listed as a Brandt theatre in the 1976 International Motion Picture Almanac. The Clinton Point Theatre was closed on September 29, 1988 with John Cleese in “A Fish Named Wanda”.
The site has been a number of banks and today is a Peapack-Gladstone Bank. The original address was at the intersection of Routes 28 and 30, which today corresponds to the intersection of Center Street and State Route 31.
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This theater was run by Tri-County theaters along with the Barn in Frenchtown and the Hunterdon in Flemington. The Clinton Point building was demolished and a bank built in its place on pretty much the same location on the lot.
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1988 photo
anyone know what was the last movie shown there?
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/08/obituary_phyllis_ryman_black_f.html#incart_river
According to this article, the deceased was the first female theater manager in NJ when she managed the Clinton Point Theater starting in 1941.
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2016/03/what_was_playing_in_hunterdon_county_movie_theatre.html#incart_river_index
Closed in September 1988.
Article on the closing in September 1988 in the photos section.
According to the article, a couple of sections read that the Clinton Point Theatre opened in 1935 and closed on September 29, 1988.
The Clinton Point Theatre closed with “A Fish Called Wanda” as its final film, and was last managed by Joe Freiwald and Bessie Hermanowski (one of the employees there was her deaf 11-year-old daughter). Several of the employees there had very emotional moments after its final showing.
During its final months of operation, the then-Mayor of Clinton, Robert Nulman, took a stroll inside the Clinton Point Theatre just to feel close to his son Daniel who previously worked as a candy salesman as a teenager, but unfortunately he died from his injuries from a vehicle accident in 1987.