Tioga Theatre
208 Main Street,
Owego,
NY
13827
208 Main Street,
Owego,
NY
13827
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A surviving gem in small town upstate New York. The Tioga Theatre was built in 1908 and is listed in the 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook with a seating capacity given as 793.
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Philip LaDue
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Werll, that’s one anyways. Here’s some more:
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A Kimball theater organ was installed in the Tioga Theater in 1923.
Here is the Tioga in 1980.
This is a 2009 photo.
Check out this theatre on Facebook. A few old photos, old programs, etc.
The Tioga Theater suffered flood damage as the Susquehanna overflowed its banks and ravaged the village of Owego in Sept. 2011. The Theater was closed for several weeks, with the marquee holding only this message: “Coming Soon: The Help.” Help came, and the theater is open again, still under renovation. The owner is committed, courageous, and is to be commended.
One more note on the Tioga: it’s in a small town, and with only the larger (original) auditorium equipped with surround sound and a huge wide screen, the owner/manager opens that venue to the film that sells the largest number of tickets. The smaller add-on screening rooms play to the smaller number of tickets. If you want to see the blockbuster in stereo, you’d better hope that film sold the most tix!
As I was driving through Owego on my way to Ithaca, i glimpsed this old theater and did a u turn to take a closer look. Sure enough, it is OPEN though I didn’t have a chance to look inside. Still happy to see that it is still there especially considering the flood damage earlier in the year.