Majestic Theater
29 Carlisle Street,
Gettysburg,
PA
17325
29 Carlisle Street,
Gettysburg,
PA
17325
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Here is a night shot:
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Here is a November 1939 ad from the Gettysburg Times:
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Thanks for the photos and infor Mike and Lost Memory.
Here are two more 1985 photos:
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I Thought this might be the MAJESTIC THEATRE in the Late 80’s short lived TV SERIES THE POPCORN KID. Yep, the entire show took place in the MAJESTIC theatre. The show was on CBS for about 6 episodes. So it goes.
1985 photo of the Majestic Theatre.
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1985 pohto close up of the Majestic marquee.
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I love that rounded marquee. It’s cool!
Here is another photo of the Majestic.
A 1996 view of the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg.
The architect for the restoration of the Majestic Theater was Killis Almond, of Killis Almond & Associates, a San Antonio, Texas, based firm specializing in the restoration of historic buildings. Click on their “Projects” link to find a link to a page about this theater, as well as links to pages about some of their other theater projects.
This is a nice recent shot of the marquee.
Markedmunds….Your right the main auditorium was twinned. The other screen was on the former stage. Not in the balcony. You walked down a long hallway built inside the 2nd auditorium then onto the former stage.
Lived in Fairfield in 1986 and the Majestic was a decent(only) place to see a movie, I went to see “Platoon”. The main auditorium was twinned down the middle and they had another screen up stairs in the former balcony. The place was a little shabby, I think Clearview was at the helm then, but you could see thru the neglect that it was once a nice single screen house. Looks great now
Here is a 2008 view of the Majestic Theater.
Gustavelifting: I visited Gettysburg last November for the Remembrance Weekend and will never see Gettysburg in the same way ever again. You must get the soundtrack of the movie Gettysburg as the music is awesome!
I assume this was the one in town. I live on Long Island in New York (like most people don’t know where Long Island is). My second cousin wanted to see the movie Gettysburg in Gettysburg. So, in a brief moment of insanity, we drove her down to this theater to see that movie. We entered as the movie started and, once the movie was over, we drove back. We have made many trips to Gettysburg and toured the battlefield many times, but this was, by far, the shortest since most lasted a few days. We will see you guys down there this weekend, and we plan to spend the night.
Great photos, Lost Memory!
A more recent photo of the Majestic Theater can be seen here.
This is a 2007 photo of the Majestic Theater.
Here is an updated link for the Majestic website. Status should be Open. Function should be Live Performances and Movies.
Another John Eberson theater, the Yeadon, in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, was torn down last year after a fire had gutted it. And William Harold Lee’s Victoria Theatre in Shamokin, Pennsylvania — his home town — was torn down several years back for a Rite Aid drugstore. On the really good news front though, in addition to the Majestic, the Hiway Theatre in Jenkintown, PA is about to reopen, this having been masterfully reworked by W.H. Lee and William E. Groben. You can read a great article about it at this link: View link And William Harold Lee’s West Shore Theatre just outside of Harrisburg from what I understand is doing really really well right now. And then of course there’s his State Theatre — a palace — up in Easton, PA which appears to be holding up very well. Some great photos of it by Noah Kern, plus Jim Rankin’s excellent commentary added to some, can be seen at: http://www.pbase.com/affablebeef/theatres There also continues to be great hope for the Boyd, Philadelphia’s last standing movie palace, originally designed by Paul J. Henon and reworked by W.H. Lee in the 1950s.
TheaterBuff1: Yes, that would be nice. Case in point is an Eberson theatre that was in the small western Pa town of Butler. They torn down their theatre for a bank. I was going to travel to Butler until I was told by a resident that the Butler Theatre was demolished.
Yes, I fully agree, what culminated in December 2006 at Gettysburg was very inspiring! Meantime, it might be interesting to note, what brought my attention to Gettysburg in the first place was my interest in the Majestic Theatre. So many of William H. Lee’s theaters throughout the state of Pennsylvania have been demolished or currently are being abusively used for other purposes, while Gettysburg went all out to restore the one it had. I loved what Gettysburg was able to do with its own W.H. Lee theater — the Majestic — while elsewhere in the state where his theaters still stand people kept telling me, “Such can’t be done.” But try telling that to the good folks of Gettysburg! Now if we could just get the rest of the state up to that same level!
TheaterBuff1: Amen. After visiting Gettysburg and especially purchasing the beautiful soundtrack to the movie called Gettysburg I have a much different appreciation and understanding of the area. When just saying the word, Gettysburg it has a different meaning to me now. Growing up the word meant that President of the United States and his wife lived there when not at the White House, but it means so much more to be now. So in December of 2006 congratulations to the fine folks of Gettysburg who fought another battle there.
With the No Casino Gettysburg campaign having proven triumphant it should be noted that that website Patsy cites above is no longer active other than the posting of a lot of spam. It was a very long, tough uphill battle for the good folks of Gettysburg, but now that it’s been won the historic town is now in a period of healing which in itself will take some time to fully resolve. And to that effort I believe the Majestic Theatre itself can become very central. For to be sure it is a beautiful theater and one of William Harold Lee’s best designs. And at a time like this Gettysburg is very lucky to have it!