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The Adams Theatre was popular for live shows of the stars of the time. Closed in 1986. Paramount Theatre opened as Miner's Newark Theatre in 1886. The Little Theatre was an art and foreign film movie house that became a pornographic cinema theatre with two screens and 299 seat capacity. Stanley Theatre became Casa Italiana.
Newport Music Hall opened in 1921; it was then known as the State Theater. [2] [3] In the 1970s, it became known as the Agora Ballroom. The hall seats 2,000 and most of the original decor is intact. It is one of the many music venues on High Street in Columbus, and the oldest continually running venue.
From the 1930s on, the Southern was a popular home for second-run double features. In the 1970s the theater briefly returned to first run fare as the Towne Cinema, showing black exploitation movies. Throughout the 1970s the Southern also hosted a weekly live Country Music Jamboree, sponsored by local radio station WMNI. [3]
The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts is moving ahead with a plan, announced a dozen years ago, to convert the former Central Presbyterian Church, 132 S. 3rd St., into a music hall and ...
The television drama The Sopranos depicts the life of a New Jersey organized crime family and is filmed on location at various places throughout the state. Series creator and writer-director David Chase grew up in Clifton and North Caldwell. The Disney Channel Original Series Jonas is taken place in New Jersey on a fictional J.O.N.A.S. street.
US 206 originally passed through the center of Columbus on Atlantic Avenue and New York Avenue until it was moved to a short four-lane bypass of downtown in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The old surface route became state-maintained New Jersey Route 170 but became a county-maintained road (Burlington CR 690) in 1986. [6]
The Newark Paramount Theater in 1906. The theatre opened in 1886 and closed in 1986. [3] [4] The owner retained Scottish-born American architect Thomas W. Lamb to expand and renovate the house into an ornate movie palace in the early 20th century.
I think I want to do a radio station," Vaxelaire said. The Lot Radio streams a continuous list of the most varied music, played by 170 DJs and musicians who volunteer their time.