Collegetown I & II
Delsay Drive and Donald Barger Boulevard,
Glassboro,
NJ
08028
Delsay Drive and Donald Barger Boulevard,
Glassboro,
NJ
08028
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The Collegetown Twin Cinemas closed in 1988. However, renovations took place in 1993 that may lead into the theater’s reopening, but unfortunately it never reopened.
This opened on June 21st, 1972 by National Mini Theatres, Inc. Ad in photo section.
I was a college student and the first film I saw there was “The China Syndrome” in fall of 79. For the next four years that place became my go-to place for movies and the 1 dollar admission for a college student was the best. Spent many an afternoon and night there. Does anyone have any pictures of the Collegetown to display?
This theater closed in 1993, if I remember correctly This is currently a “Dollar Tree” store which was built over the atrium style entrance in 2001. The Marquis was also recently replaced by modern store signs (i.e. Radioshack, Subway, 2-guys Pizza(now defunct), and Dollar Tree). Some of the old theater can be seen from the store room of Dollar Tree (atleast in 2001-02) when they had the back doors open. The old air conditioning system is also still located on top of the left side of Kmart’s roof (they are a green color and look fairly neglected differing from Kmart’s grey units). Before the place was renovated into store front, a small mail slot could be opened to reveal the glass lobby counter/ snack stand that still had bits of popcorn strewn about (yuck- that was in 1998-it closed in ‘93), and a very modern ('80s) colorful angular paint job on the walls (which was about 10 feet from the entrance- with the auditorium doors on the right side).
We saw “Gremlins 2” there in 1989 when we first moved to Glassboro.
The shopping center was built in 1966.
The following is extracted from http://voger.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html:
“My late friend was the manager of the CollegeTown Cinema, a two-screen theater that showed second-run movies for a ONE DOLLAR ADMISSION. That’s right, a lousy buck! Even in the ‘70s, that was a crazy bargain. Some of the movies I recall seeing there: "Audrey Rose,” “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Interiors,” “Starting Over,” “The Goodbye Girl,” “Thunder and Lightning.” "