In My Neighborhood: Epic theater to play its final reel (Bergen Record)
From The Bergen Record:
PARAMUS -- One of North Jersey's landmark movie theaters will shut down next week after ushering film fans through premieres, first kisses and light-saber duels for more than 40 years.
The AMC Paramus Route 4 10 -- known affectionately to locals simply as the Tenplex -- will run its projectors for the last time Thursday, just one day before a bigger, more advanced cineplex opens down the road at the Garden State Plaza.
For some, the closing means little more than driving in another direction to see a new flick. But for others, the demise of the Tenplex represents the end of a golden era.
Andy Mohan, 31, experienced many milestones at the theater, where he is a projectionist. He said his mother has worked at the Tenplex since he was a young boy, and his father once did, too. His sister and his fiancee also work there. Mohan saw "Star Wars" for the first time and met his fiancee at the Tenplex.
"This theater has character," Mohan said. "All of the others, they're right off the assembly line."
The Tenplex opened as the Stanley Warner Route Four Theater in 1965, when it had only one big screen and a balcony. At that Time it had big name live acts as well as movies.
Since then, several companies have owned it, putting the structure through a number of expansions and alterations.
Employees aren't the only ones upset about the theater closing. Chris Seppentino saw his first movie ("Raggedy Ann & Andy") and got his first kiss (Karen) at the Tenplex. This week, he started a petition to keep the theater open, and so far has 65 signatures.
"There's no reason you can't keep this theater and [the new] theater open at the same time," he said. "You'll always have enough people here."
Seppentino plans to call the Paramus borough government, state Sen. Joseph Coniglio, and Governor Corzine to lobby for the theater to remain. And he's contacting boutique theater companies that restore and operate older movie theaters.
AMC, the company that owns the Tenplex and is opening the new theater complex at Garden State Plaza, did not reveal much about its plans for the old theater property. Andy DiOrio, a spokesman for AMC, said he did not know what would happen to the building.
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PARAMUS -- One of North Jersey's landmark movie theaters will shut down next week after ushering film fans through premieres, first kisses and light-saber duels for more than 40 years.
The AMC Paramus Route 4 10 -- known affectionately to locals simply as the Tenplex -- will run its projectors for the last time Thursday, just one day before a bigger, more advanced cineplex opens down the road at the Garden State Plaza.
For some, the closing means little more than driving in another direction to see a new flick. But for others, the demise of the Tenplex represents the end of a golden era.
Andy Mohan, 31, experienced many milestones at the theater, where he is a projectionist. He said his mother has worked at the Tenplex since he was a young boy, and his father once did, too. His sister and his fiancee also work there. Mohan saw "Star Wars" for the first time and met his fiancee at the Tenplex.
"This theater has character," Mohan said. "All of the others, they're right off the assembly line."
The Tenplex opened as the Stanley Warner Route Four Theater in 1965, when it had only one big screen and a balcony. At that Time it had big name live acts as well as movies.
Since then, several companies have owned it, putting the structure through a number of expansions and alterations.
Employees aren't the only ones upset about the theater closing. Chris Seppentino saw his first movie ("Raggedy Ann & Andy") and got his first kiss (Karen) at the Tenplex. This week, he started a petition to keep the theater open, and so far has 65 signatures.
"There's no reason you can't keep this theater and [the new] theater open at the same time," he said. "You'll always have enough people here."
Seppentino plans to call the Paramus borough government, state Sen. Joseph Coniglio, and Governor Corzine to lobby for the theater to remain. And he's contacting boutique theater companies that restore and operate older movie theaters.
AMC, the company that owns the Tenplex and is opening the new theater complex at Garden State Plaza, did not reveal much about its plans for the old theater property. Andy DiOrio, a spokesman for AMC, said he did not know what would happen to the building.
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