Bushfire Theatre

224 S. 52nd Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19139

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lonixcap
lonixcap on September 2, 2011 at 11:38 pm

Hey Veyoung52 I spent many an afternoon at the Locust during the mid to late 1960’s. On Saturdays they had 3 features for the price of one. The first movie they would only show once, then there was the regular double feature. But the first movie was always something like The Great Escape or Guns of Navarone or some other big blockbuster of the time. The Locust didn’t do those cheapie horror flicks and spaghetti westerns on Saturdays like the Nixon and Capitol did, it was always the big hollywood action flick, and i was totally into it.

airgrabber
airgrabber on January 6, 2011 at 9:23 am

Does anyone have any pictures of this when it was the Locust?

lostmemory
lostmemory on May 9, 2009 at 11:29 am

Could you please stop posting the Google map links? I already posted a photo of the building.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 9, 2009 at 11:15 am

Here is a contemporary view:
http://tinyurl.com/qlakqp

lostmemory
lostmemory on June 24, 2008 at 11:14 am

Here is a photo of the Bushfire Theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on January 13, 2008 at 9:46 am

A Kimball theater organ was installed in the Locust Theater in 1914. Note: Located on 52nd Street.

veyoung52
veyoung52 on January 21, 2005 at 9:01 pm

As the Locust, it was operated by Henry Sley, a parking lot magnate who had also acquired the downtown Aldine and renamed it the Viking. In 1961 the Locust got embroiled in an interesting legal tangle with United Artists. This was back when double-features were still around, and Mr. Sley managed to book, you won’t believe this, both “Gone With The Wind” and “By Love Possessed” (115 minutes) on the same bill. United Artists balked. Can you blame them? One could have spent an entire afternoon there!