Park Theater
1022 Penn Street,
Reading,
PA
19601
1022 Penn Street,
Reading,
PA
19601
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The Park Theater opened around 1926. On November 20, 1978 there was a fire at the Park Theater. (Click the link below for a photo of the fire) This theater was demolished the following year.
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Lost Memory
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You’re right Mike. It was the Ritz. I believe it was next door to Reads. I think I do remember your mom. Really is a small world. Had you gone to the Ritz you’d know why it was called the Stinky. Place had a real musty smell. I think I was only in there once.
Here is a new link for the photo mentioned in the Related Websites above. There are now two photos of the Park Theater at that link.
The street name in the header needs to be changed from Penn Avenue to Penn Street. There is a Penn Avenue in Reading, so the Google Maps link currently fetches the wrong location. The caption for the photos Lost Memory linked to in the preceding comment gives the location of the Park as the 1000 block of Penn Street.
The “Related Websites” link in the intro is dead, by the way.
I was wrong about the block. It WAS in the 1000 block of Penn St, probable address of 1028 Penn. BTW, Rt. 422 is Penn Avenue through West Reading. From the center of the Penn Street Bridge it becomes Penn Street through Reading, as far as 11th Street where it becomes Perkiomen Avenue. I just checked on Google maps, and that address looks right.
I just noticed that the header on this post has the Park listed as 1022 Penn Street. More than likely that is the actual address.
JimmiB: Please take a look at my recent comments on the Arcadia Theatre page. There’s a link to a 1909 magazine item about a theater, originally called the Victor, at 748 Penn Street. At first I thought it might have been the theater you knew in the 1950s as the stinky Ritz, but Ken Roe found a different address for the Ritz. It’s possible that the Victor didn’t last long, in which case you still might reconize the building as the location of some other business.
Looking at the picture and the address, I believe that is the same site as the later Astor Theatre. I’ll comment further on your Arcadia page.
In order for this to map to the 1000 block of Penn St. the zip code needs to be changed to 19601.
Absolutely correct Chuck. 19601
Also, the Google map and image are of Penn Ave. in Wyomissing. Not even close.