Hi Helaine, I think we have chatted before on this forum... Not only do I remember the Oxford, but I remember the "Liberty"just up the Street...Seems to me we paid about .11 to get into one of them...I spent many a Sunday afternoon there, and by myself, while my family was playing cards around the corner--would we dare do that today? I remember triple features, I think (?), of such as Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Gene Auntry, and also a "serial" along with it... Yes, and in those days I guess we always had the uniformed ushers! Such memories, arn't they great? Jan in California ---------- >From: "Dwight Golann" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [NJUNION] Postcard of Front Street in Plainfield/Oxford Theatre? >Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2000, 7:13 AM > > Dear Sydney, > > I'm very curious about what the name of the building that has the X over > it is - Does it tell on the back of the card? The building I would love to > locate is the Oxford Theatre which I think was either closed ortorn down in > the early 50's. My uncle Ted Fulton worked there as a projectionist so my > brother and I knew everyone who worked there. (We especially loved Ann > Deregan (sp?) who was always in a spiffy uniform and happy to take us behind > the scenes when things weren't busy.) We also got to sit in the balcony > long after it was closed to large groups for safety reasons. > > Traveling circuses also used to come and perform on the Oxford's stage > and my brother was once propelled out onto the stage in the midst of a dog > act when we were back stage when we shouldn't have been and a "magnificent > baby elephant" gave him a mightly shove that threw him though the > curtains... Was anyone on the list there that day or any other? I would > love to hear from anyone who remembers "The Oxford". > > Helaine > >