Cambria Theatre

I used to go to the Cambria Theatre in the early 1960s. We lived nearby on Clearfield St. I went to John Greenleaf Whittier school then. Last movie I probably in saw was sometime around 1962. One of the movies I remember seeing there was "The Village of the Damned". The neighborhood went to pot and still is a very dangerous place. We moved a few miles away in East Falls neighborhood.

The neighborhood changed really fast back in the early 1960's. On those hot summer nights I remember hearing police sirens most of the night. The Cambria Threatre then became a Black church or spritual center. My grandmother stilled live in the neighborhood until see died. It is funny how you seem to forget things as you get older and other memories become clearer.

A Moller organ Opus 3125 Size 2/12 was installed in the Cambria Theater in 1922 at a cost of $8000.00.