Jerry Theater
2000 Block of South Third Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19148
2000 Block of South Third Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19148
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A small theatre located in the 2000 block of Third Street in South Philadelphia. Not sure when it opened but it closed in 1971. It is currently being used a catering hall.
Best little place to spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons with your friends in the the early ‘60s — where else can you go to spend $.50 for admission and buy 25 cent popcorn.
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This theater is listed as opening in 1913 with 468 seats. The address given is 2029 South Third St.
I show that the Jerry closed in 1967 but that could be wrong, but I show the same address and seating capacity as lostmemory does.
My family lived across the street from this theatre when I was very young (too young to cross the street and get a good look at the posters!) One-Sheets were posted in a giant easel ouside the theatre and I still remember being scard to death by the posters from William Castle’s Macabre , I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and Invasion of the Saucer-Men!
I saw my first movie there – Disney’s Pinocchio – but because I spent all my time watching a teenage couple “making out” instead of watching the film, my family was asked to leave! I have great memories of Saturday double-features there…and eventually saw all of Pinocchio, too!
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2727ud
Jerry Theater
2029 South Third Street
468 seats
Source.
Thanks, Lost Memory, for the photo! I haven’t seen this theatre since the 50s and I even sort-of remember my family shopping at that Acme Market you can see down the street on the right. Do you have any idea when the photo was taken? The marquee’s blank, so I guess it was after the theatre closed, but the cars seem not of that time period.
Again, thanks for taking the time & effort to post the photo – I just emailed a copy of it to my older sister, who ‘baby-sat’ me through many a Saturday matinee double feature there!
The larger b/w photo was posted by ken mc. Maybe he can give you additional information about the date of that photo. The cars in that photo range from the fifties to approximately 1967 which is the same year that Cinematour gives as the closing year for the Jerry Theater. I don’t know if that year is correct or was it 1971 as given in the description above.
Two aka names are given on the PAB website. They are Morris Theater and Great Southern Theater.
Using the 2029 S. 3rd address, this is what the theater looks like today:
http://tinyurl.com/l9ud7a
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