Dixie Theater

1224 Point Breeze Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19146

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Opened in 1930 as the New Dixie Theater. Between 1939-1950’s, I attended this theater for Saturday movies, two cartoons, short subjects and the coming attractions (I almost forgot the serials). Pretzels and candy were sold in the back of the theater on Saturdays. I remember on some Saturdays there was also live entertainment done by “hopefuls” of my era.

I was told by my older cousin that he hated to take me to the cowboy shows because whenever someone was “shot”, I cried, so you can imagine how many tears I shed during the B-movies.

The Dixie Theater was located on Point Breeze Avenue between Federal Street and Wharton Street in South Philly.

Contributed by Richard Parker

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lostmemory
lostmemory on November 10, 2006 at 4:40 am

The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings site lists this theater as Dixie Theater aka New Dixie Theater (1930).

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on August 8, 2009 at 8:32 am

Here is the church/theater as seen on Google maps:
http://tinyurl.com/mpu4dv

lostmemory
lostmemory on August 8, 2009 at 8:45 am

Here is the matching map link.

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