103 South Olden Avenue, The Olden Theatre, East Trenton
This is before my time but many Burg folks might have
gone here so here it is:)
6 years ago
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3 comments:
Hi Mack: The Olden used to be called the Gaiety Theatre. George B. Teneyke owned it then. During the 30s he let all the kids in free on Saturday mornings. We use to see Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson and Buck Jones and all the other good Westerns. He also owned many other theatres in the city. He was a great guy.
I was projectionist at the Olden Theater between 1968 and 1973 or 4. As I may have mentioned it was an old Vaudeville house and had carpentry, seamstress, and musician's rooms below the stage along with dressing rooms (also located back stage). The theater had a Theater Organ that was sold to the Eastman Theater in Rochester, New York. At the time, it was managed by Jack Kosharek, PhD (yes that is correct) who really knew how to manage a theater. The under stage had a door on the left of the theater that led to the basement of the rentals where the bowling alley and other businesses were located. During the twenties and thirties the Olden was called the Gaiety and the second floor of the rental building was called the "Dew Drop Inn" which was a bordellow. The passage way under the alley to under the Olden stage was for rapid escape in case of a raid. The theater was one of the first to have a genuine Cinemascope Screen with stereo sound. The Screen, unlike many theater screens today, was properly installed so that there were no out-of-focus areas of the picture. The projection booth walls were constructed out of various layers of reinforced concrete with layers of lead to contain the blast during the days of the explosive films. I suppose the projectionist would have not survived. The Cinimascope lenses were about 14 inches long, weighed a couple of pounds, and in order to install them on the projectors, the projectionist had to push them out of the projection port (glassless window) over the audience. We were always careful not to drop them. Jack operated an imaculately clean theatre. The people who worked there usually did so for years and were very nice to work with.
Wes Stillwagon
the plumeri and co.would be paulie plumeri
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