Ruby Theatre
Front Street & York Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19133
Front Street & York Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19133
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Apparently built as the Broadway Theatre around 1914. (Not to be confused with a better-known Broadway Theatre on South Broad Street)
It closed as a regular movie theatre in 1955. By 1963 it was operating as the New Broadway Theatre with an adults-only policy. It disappeared from newspaper listings by the end of the 1960’s but turned up again (sporadically, and not for long) with mainstream films as the Ruby Theatre in the 1980’s.
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A Moller theater organ opus 1789 size 2/9 was installed in the Ruby Theater in 1914. Note: Tubular pneumatic action.
The 1941 Philadelphia directory has a listing for a New Broadway at Hope & York Streets, which I assume is this theater. There is also a listing for a Ruby Theater at Franklin and Fairmount Avenues. That may be listed here under some other name.
I found three Ruby Theaters for Philly. The one listed here, one with a location given as Fairmount Ave & N Franklin St, and the third was an early Ruby Theater listed for Market St. I don’t see either of those listed here but its possible they are here under another name.
That’s why I try to avoid adding theaters for some of these cities that have several hundred listings. Unless you go through each one, odds are that you will be duplicating an entry somewhere.
Here is a photo from the Philadelphia Buildings & Architects site, from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/32h2nk
Here is the PAB site. They give a seat count of 1000.
Here are two vintage trade press photos of a Ruby Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. I can’t guarantee that it’s this one: archive