Main Street Cinema

50sSNIPES on October 12, 2023 at 6:47 pm

The city of Trenton was left without a movie theater for eight months after the closure of the Plaza Theatre on August 30, 1985 due to poor attendance.

Movies return to Trenton after an eight-month hiatus when the single-screen Main Street Cinema opened its doors on April 11, 1986 with “Rocky IV”. An addition to its main feature, a one-day matinee of “Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation” was added a day later but was not shown on grand opening. The theater originally housed 138 seats.

The Main Street Cinema closed for the final time on December 30, 1999 with “Toy Story 2” and the theater was later converted into a classroom, leaving Trenton again without a movie theater until the launch of the Bigtime Cinema in October 2006.