Sherwood Theatre
54th Street at Baltimore Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19143
54th Street at Baltimore Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19143
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Modernization pictured in this 1940 trade report: Boxoffice
My family went to the Sherwood through 1959. We lived at 5331 Baltimore Avenue.
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.
11 July 1953 Box Office says then it shuttered.
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.
A Moller organ Opus 2244 Size 2/11 was installed in the Sherwood Theater in 1916 at a cost of $3500.00.