Luxor
Title
Luxor
Subject
Description
A movie theater constructed in the 1930s. By the late 1950s, the theater went by the name, the “Luxor Follies” and showed obscene movies. Eventually police and legal pressure forced the theater closed in the early 1960s and it was soon after demolished. The theater once held 570 seats.
Date
circa 1930
Coverage
266 Market St, Newark, NJ 07102
State
demolished
Bibliography
Read, Philip M. Movie Houses of Greater Newark. , 2013. Print. Page 42
Smith, Eric L. African American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. Print. Page 137.
Smith, Eric L. African American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. Print. Page 137.
Collection
Citation
“Luxor,” DANA, accessed December 19, 2024, https://dana.njit.edu/items/show/95.
Geolocation
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