Loew's Jersey, the Wonder Theatre that Journal Square refused to lose
54 Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey
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Loew's built five Wonder Theatres around New York in 1929 and put exactly one outside the city limits, on Journal Square. Rapp and Rapp gave it a baroque interior for more than three thousand people and a Wonder Morton organ. Hartz Mountain bought it in 1986 to knock it down for a redevelopment site, and a volunteer group called Friends of the Loew's fought that for seven years until Jersey City bought the building in 1993 and let them start restoring it themselves.
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