Waverly Theatre

Burmont Road,
Drexel Hill, PA 19026

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Waverly

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The Waverly Theatre was a huge single screener, built in the 1920’s or earlier in Drexel Hill, a Delaware County suburb of Philadelphia. As of 1931, the auditorium had 1,562 seats. Philadelphia theatre architects Hoffman-Henon designed it. Stanley Warner operated it. Until the 1960’s or 1970’s, it had coal heat. The coal was in the basement, and a fan would blow the hot air around. It closed in the 1980’s. The restroom suites were lavish.

The building is used as a bar and beer distributorship.

Contributed by Mira626, Howard B. Haas

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lostmemory
lostmemory on February 23, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Photos of the Waverly Theater building can be seen here. Click each photo to expand it.

HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on February 23, 2008 at 4:06 pm

This bar is in the front portion and mentions the Waverly on their website:
http://www.mcgillicuddys.net/

lostmemory
lostmemory on April 25, 2009 at 3:40 pm

The year given for this photo is 1980.

bobc316
bobc316 on March 7, 2011 at 5:57 pm

hi has anybody been in mcgillicuddys ? is there anything from the waverly theatre or anything left

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