Lane Theatre
Broad Street & 67th Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
Broad Street & 67th Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
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Opened in 1938, the Lane, located at Broad Street and 67th Avenue, was designed by David Supowitz in Art Moderne style. It could seat 607. After the Lane closed as a movie theater in 1975, it became home to a church.
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Thanks TC. That brings back lots of memories
The theatre is now a church and day care center. When they installed the cinemascope screen the stage was lost. The new screen had to go in front of the stage. They would use a slide projector with different colors to lite the screen before the show because of no curtain. rg
Many long, long runs here including the premiere engagement of “David and Lisa,” and the French suspense classic “Diabolique.”
This theatre was mentioned on a DVD of the Dick Cavett Show. Lots of theatres were named in the golden age of theatres.
Box Office November 12, 1938 describes opening festivities for this new Warner Bros theater last Wednesday: A four and a half mile run from North Broad Street’s Uptown Theatre, a parade of military & school bands of Oak Lane preceded speeches, and speeches including that of Mayor S. Davis Wilson.
Played an eclectic mix on films in the 60"s. “A Funny thing Happened on the Way To Forum” played there first run, I believe the only location in the city.
Also Joanna very quirky mod sex comedy directed by Michael Sarne who got Myra Breckenridge
based on Joanna’s success.
Here is a larger version of the photo posted on 3/2/05:
http://tinyurl.com/rbe8cr
That’s from the Irviin Glazer collection.
Here is an April 1975 photo from Temple U:
http://tinyurl.com/ylkc5bo
Went there once and got jumped. Never went back.