Sherwood Theatre
54th Street at Baltimore Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19143
54th Street at Baltimore Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19143
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The Sherwood Theatre, located on 54th Street at Baltimore Avenue, originally opened in 1913. In 1938, architect David Supowitz remodeled the theater in Art Moderne style. The Sherwood Theatre closed in 1951, and has since been demolished.
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The Sherwood didn’t close in 1951. I’m certain I attended movies there in the late ‘50s or early '60s. Sometime after that it closed and was torn down. What was remarkable after it was gone was how small the lot was — a little triangle of land that once hosted movie magic.
11 July 1953 Box Office says then it shuttered.
Someone got it wrong. It absolutely was open for about a decade after that supposed closing date. I attended movies there, and I couldn’t have if it had closed in 1953.
It and the Ambassador, a few blocks away on Baltimore Avenue, were the neighborhood movie palaces.
My family went to the Sherwood through 1959. We lived at 5331 Baltimore Avenue.