Lawrence Park Eric Twin
1901 Sproul Road,
Broomall,
PA
19008
1901 Sproul Road,
Broomall,
PA
19008
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Located in the Lawrence Park Shopping Center. The Lawrence Park Theatre opened with 1,000 seats and a 42 feet wide screen in 1957 or 1958. It was designed by architectural firm Thalheimer & Weitz, and operated by the Abel & Silber circuit. It was twinned in 1974, and later acquired by the Sameric Corp.
Movies which were screened here include “Popeye”, “Hardcore”, “Star Trek III”, “Project X”, “The Breakfast Club” and “Rumble Fish” to name but a few.
The Lawrence Park Eric Twin was closed on October 20, 1991. It was converted into a Barnes & Noble store.
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The Lawrence Park Theatre was twinned between August 1974 to December 1974. Which was even before Sameric Theatres acquired this theatre, which was sometime after April, 1977
The address for the LP Theatre/Eric Lawrence Park Twin/Barnes & Noble is 1901 Sproul Road. To the left of this theatre was Lit Brothers Department Store, which opened as Snellenburgs
i would love to know when this theater actually closed. marple 10 right down the street opened in nov of 90.. so i wonder if this theater closed soon after or before… ? i wil do some research soon..
Ronnie it closed in 1991 I am not exactly sure when. I know when I was home for Christmas in 91 it was closed and they were going to put a Barnes and Noble there. Once United Artists purchased the Sam Eric Chain they closed most of their theaters. Nothing from my childhood there is open including GCC/Eric/ UA Clifton heights Twin
i’ll try and pinpoint it.. when i go to library and find out what the last 2 movies that shown there were, and i will take some snapshots of it today…
lawrence park barckley square city line theatres all closed within 3years of each other 1990-1993 what a shamee
ok, got my answer here. The theater closed on October 20th 1991. the last 3 movies that shown here were these,
Dead Again.
necessary roughness.
and a movie called :Shout:
Right across from barnes nobles formly LP theater was Movies Unlimited. I bought lots of movies there that you couldnt get anywhere else. They would special order stuff. I think they lasted until 2000 or 2001…
just got marquee letters from my friend steve his brother worked there so yet another piece of movie theatre lore these all need to be saved. so if theres any theatre closing near you salvage something
i forgot to mention the letters were from lawrence park twin