RKO Reade's Theatre

2 Woodbridge Avenue,
Highland Park, NJ 08904

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rivest266
rivest266 on August 26, 2017 at 7:17 pm

This reopened as the RKO Reade’s theatre on August 18th, 1944.

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Found on Newspapers.com

teecee
teecee on March 19, 2010 at 9:56 pm

1933 program (movie on cover came out in Dec. 1932):

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arcwell
arcwell on January 29, 2008 at 11:34 pm

Go to the Amazon website. Search the book title “highland park borough of homes”. You will see a reproduction of the book cover. Click on it to enlarge it, then click on it a second time to enlarge it further. You will see the RKO Park Theater.

teecee
teecee on August 20, 2006 at 2:31 pm

Appears in the 1961 FDY under the RKO Theatres listing as the Park Theatre.

teecee
teecee on August 20, 2006 at 2:14 pm

Thanks for the tip Ken.
The 1944 FDY also lists this theatre as the Park.

“According to the Highland Park Historical Society, the borough even "marginally supported ” a moviehouse from 1927 to the late 1950s. The 1,400-seat Block’s Park Theatre featured a fountain and an aquarium, and 20-cent matinees.“ extracted from
http://www.highlandparkchamber.com/about.html

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on August 20, 2006 at 7:51 am

Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s:1941 & 1943 editions as the Park Theatre with a seating capacity of 1,367. By the time the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. was published it was known as the RKO Reade’s Theatre with a seating capacity of 1,053.