Terminal Theater
69th Street and Market Street,
Upper Darby,
PA
19082
69th Street and Market Street,
Upper Darby,
PA
19082
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hey jk you must be refering to the old storage building right across the street from pica’s the old park theatre never seen pics but would love to LOL
Don’t know if bobc316 is still looking, but I grew up around the corner from there. I remember my mother telling me that there used to be a movie theater there and I the front looking very theater like. All while waiting for either the “W” bus or the trolley, whichever came first on the corner of South Pennock and WC Pike. Know Pica’s well, worked there for many years.
I have a old Philadelphia Inquirer from June 1943 that has the Terminal Theatre as a William Goldman Theatre, and the Tower Theatre and 69th Street Theatre as a Stanley Warner Theatre. I would have to assume that in the early 1950’s Stanley Warner and William Goldman swapped the Terminal Theatre and the Tower Theatre
ok maybe someone can help me, there was a movie theatre called the park theater in upper darby located where the PARK SELF STORAGE is now at 8000 westchester pike on the right hand side if you go a little further, picas is on your left.
Bob,If you go back and look at old Newspaper ads you see alot of afternoon Monster Movies being played in towns across the country.
When it was run by Stanley Warner it was very basic. There were no curtains, but they did have masking that operated manually from the side of the screen. The screen was in front of a large stage. Not sure when they used the stage. When SamEric took over they put curtains including along the side walls and the back.
This was possibly the most basic-looking of auditoriums I’d ever seen. The only distinguishing feature was the three large lighted rectangular spaces in the ceiling. No marble, no brass railings, just a large screen and the convenience of the nearby Septa terminal. I still miss it, though; a Rite-Aid now occupies the space.
This photo is from the Library of Congress. The year given for the photo is 1936.
The theater closed in the late 80’s. By the late 70’s early 80s they started playing triple features. I worked shortly for the SamEric chain and the this was one of there highest grossing theaters.I think Sameric took over in the late 60’s or early 70’s.
Operated by Stanley Warner at one time; by the ‘70s it was run by Sameric (which advertised it as the Eric-Terminal). More of a B-movie venue than the typical Sameric theater. Don’t know how long this one stayed open; early '80s maybe?
A story years ago in Philadelphia Magazine said that the competition to lease this theater was once so heated that the management of a chain that lost out ordered its employees not to speak to employees of the chain that won!