Yeadon Theater Pics

posted by Patrick Crowley on April 20, 2004 at 1:47 pm

YEADON, PA — As a followup to last week’s story about the Yeadon Theatre, George Quirk sent in some recent shots of the theater. ()

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adtv
adtv on April 20, 2004 at 2:32 pm

Have a look at this link, it shows how it was inside:
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RobertR
RobertR on April 20, 2004 at 7:14 pm

Is it me or is a demolition ceromony weird?

sdoerr
sdoerr on April 20, 2004 at 8:40 pm

Truely looks salavageable to me, the facade still looks fresh. Demo ceromony..I wonder who thought of that. it is weird.

adtv
adtv on April 20, 2004 at 11:55 pm

I quite agree, very strange!

JoelWeide
JoelWeide on April 21, 2004 at 3:12 am

Excellant photo essay. The detail which the pictures show and the variety of them is very creditable. In its day this theatre was very colorful. The curved theme, extends to the fire exits as well. The exterior looks sound, just the roof is in bad shape and caused a lot of damage. It is amazing what water. Keep the water out of the building and you extend the life indefinately. What a sad loss for the community. Again excellant photography.

edward
edward on April 21, 2004 at 6:44 pm

The intentions are good to try and save this theater at the last minute. However, it’s such a waste of money to now order new evaluations and more reports. Why wasn’t this done initially? If the building was so significant, why didn’t the preservationists raise a flag before demolition was already in motion. I’m all for preserving old theatrers but these efforts seem a little too late and wasteful.

EJD1984
EJD1984 on April 22, 2004 at 12:49 pm

There needs to be some kind of non-profit national trust/origination setup to compile a list of endangered theaters and have them step long before any talk of demolition to save the theater(s). We are getting involved too little, too late and letting this happen. We are loosing our history!

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