Broad Theatre
4813 N. Broad Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19141
4813 N. Broad Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19141
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Was located in the Logan section of Philadelphia on the opposite side of Broad Street accross from the Logan and the Rockland Theatres. Smaller than the Rockland and Logan, the Broad currently is home to a church.
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The Broad Theatre opened in 1915 and closed as a movie theatre in 1971. The Architects were Anderson & Haupt. The was one of a number of Broad or Broad Street Theatres in Philly.
In the 50’s the Broad was well known for showing films that had already been shown at the other 2 neighborhood theaters, the Logan and Rockland. They usually were shown a week or two after they were at the other theaters, giving people a second chance to see a film they might have missed, or wanted to see again.
Here is a contemporary view:
http://tinyurl.com/pmvlch
Here is a view of the marquee in 1957:
http://tinyurl.com/px9vjc
Boxoffice of December 26, 1936, ran an item saying that “…A. M. Ellis will operate the theatre in the 4800 block of Broad Street on which work was started this week.” The house was to seat 500, and the project was budgeted at $40,000.
The wording in Boxoffice being a bit vague, I thought this project was for an entirely new theater until I read the Cinema Treasures intro. Given the budget, this must have been a fairly extensive remodeling of the 1915 Broad Theatre. The architect for the remodeling was David Supowitz.
A couple of later issues of Boxoffice mention A. M. Ellis’s Broad Theatre when Ellis was involved in a clearance case against several major companies, including Warners, operators of the Logan Theatre down the street.