The Regent Movie Theater

The Regent Movie Theater operated at 88 Main St (between Greenwood Avenue and N. Hollywood Avenue) from 1915 to 1925.

The Juggernaut showing at the theater in 1915 was a 30 minute movie that had been filmed in South River, New Jersey.

Above is from The Music Trade Review, 1915. The music business kept up with the movie theater business because the many new theaters had increased the demand for "automatic pianos."

The two articles below were in the same issue of Moving Picture World.

Summer polio epidemics created havoc in the movie theater business.  The summer, 1916 New York City area polio outbreak was particularly bad.

Above: The building that housed The Regent Theater can be seen on the far left in this photo (photo courtesy of the Newark Public Library) taken by Dr Sam Berg in October, 1964 as he documented the area before it was destroyed to make way for I-280.

In 1925 The Strand Theater, renamed The Beacon in the late 1930's or early 40's, opened at 129 Main St diagonally across the street from where the The Regent had been.

South Side of Main St Between Steuben St and Mitchell Place, Oct 1964

Above: The building in this photo had been built in 1924 as The Strand Building and the Strand Theater opened in 1925. Sometime in the late 1930's or early 1940's it became The Beacon.

Above: The Barn restaurant on the SW corner of Steuben St and Main St

Above: Looking SW along Main from the intersection of Main and Grove; Kings Supermarket would be at photographer's back

All of these photos were taken by Dr. Sam Berg in October, 1964 and document this historic neighborhood shortly before it was bulldozed to make way for I-280. The photos are from the Berg Collection and are courtesy of the Newark Public Library. The north side of Main St is here in another post. 

Hotel Suburban

Built in 1926, the Hotel Suburban at 141 South Harrison St had 225 rooms.

In February 1960 radio personality Dick Kollmar and his wife, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen opened up a supper club called Paris In The Sky on a newly created 11th floor in the hotel. The club featured a Paris street scene with six shops and touted its unique view of the Manhattan skyline just ten miles away.

Below: from a newspaper article in 1960

 1960

Below: Hotel Suburban building on Google maps 2013

Kindergarten 1951/52, Miss Stewart, Afternoon Class

                                        Photo courtesy of John Hoagland, a student in the class

Teacher: Miss Ethel Louise Stewart; Students identified at this time: Dante Chinni, Armando Braz, Patty O'Connor, John Hoagland, Billy Van Tassell, Bob Wasner, Joseph Amirkhas

North side of Main St between Greenwood Avenue and the Garden State Parkway, October, 1964

Kings Supermarket was built about 1955 at the NE corner of Main St and N. Grove St on the site of the historic Congregational Church which had burned in December, 1952

                                                                 Above: Eastern School

     Above: looking NE along Main St toward the corner of Main St and N. Maple St; the Palmer House at N. Maple and Main can be seen over the store buildings                                                                            

                               The Palmer House at the NW corner of Main St. and N. Maple St

                  Above: looking NE on Main St from the SW corner of Main St and S. Maple St

                          Above: looking NE on Main St toward the Main St/ Grove St intersection

                       Looking NE on Main St from the SW corner of Main St and S. Grove St

        Below: looking NW on Main St at the block between Greenwood Ave. and N. Hollywood Ave

All of these photos were taken by Dr. Sam Berg in October, 1964 and document this historic neighborhood shortly before it was bulldozed to make way for I-280. The photos are from the Berg Collection and are courtesy of the Newark Public Library. The south side of Main Street which includes The Beacon Movie Theater and The Barn restaurant is shown here in another post.