Former employee here – I worked at Bernardsville Cinema 1987 to 1991. Yes, there was a balcony! At the time I worked there it had been closed up for years and the balcony space was used as a projection booth, with additional rooms used for storage. The switch from a single screen to three screens happened somewhere around 1989 or 1990. None of us who worked there wanted to see this neat old place chopped up into a multi-plex, but it was either that or go out of business entirely. Once the Morristown Headquarters Plaza theatres opened in the late 80’s, the patronage of Bernardsville Cinema went WAY down, and something had to be done to keep the place afloat. Still, great memories of a bygone era!
Former employee here – I worked at Bernardsville Cinema 1987 to 1991. Yes, there was a balcony! At the time I worked there it had been closed up for years and the balcony space was used as a projection booth, with additional rooms used for storage. The switch from a single screen to three screens happened somewhere around 1989 or 1990. None of us who worked there wanted to see this neat old place chopped up into a multi-plex, but it was either that or go out of business entirely. Once the Morristown Headquarters Plaza theatres opened in the late 80’s, the patronage of Bernardsville Cinema went WAY down, and something had to be done to keep the place afloat. Still, great memories of a bygone era!