Cambria Theatre
2468 W. Cambria Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19132
2468 W. Cambria Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19132
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I don’t know if the ramp is still there, but I remember back in the 1960’s; you had to wait down in the lower ramp area which was where you see the white cross. it had a long descending ramp and you had to wait down there until the box office opened.then the line would wind up back into the front of the theater., you exited from the ramp area, which of course some would sneak in.they would have their friends open the door for hem or maybe for anyone who knocked? the movies were mainly 1950’s space monster films and hercules epics.I believe an old couple actualy owned the place.
WHAT KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHY IS THIS,ITS ALMOST SCARY ALTHOUGJH I LOVE IT. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ZOOMING AND HAVING A THREE- D LIKE EXPIERANCE?
The Cambria Theatre is now the Christlike Baptist Church. The church has a side entrance address of 2901 25th St., but the main entrance for the theatre was at the following.
Address:
2468 W. Cambria St.
Phailadelphia, PA. 19132
My grandfather had a German church in this neighborhood in the 1930s. I would love to see if that building is still standing. I have to ask my mother if she went to the Cambria or the Lehigh down the street.
A Moller organ Opus 3125 Size 2/12 was installed in the Cambria Theater in 1922 at a cost of $8000.00.
The neighborhood changed really fast back in the early 1960’s. On those hot summer nights I remember hearing police sirens most of the night. The Cambria Threatre then became a Black church or spritual center. My grandmother stilled live in the neighborhood until see died. It is funny how you seem to forget things as you get older and other memories become clearer.
I used to go to the Cambria Theatre in the early 1960s. We lived nearby on Clearfield St. I went to John Greenleaf Whittier school then. Last movie I probably in saw was sometime around 1962. One of the movies I remember seeing there was “The Village of the Damned”. The neighborhood went to pot and still is a very dangerous place. We moved a few miles away in East Falls neighborhood.