The building had apartments in the upper floors. It is showcased in the original movie Fame. When they built the hotel the only thing that was left of the Palace was the auditorium. The lobby and enterance with the old beautiful marquee was all torn down.The theater was closed for at least 4-5 years. It was reopened in 1991 with The Will Rogers Follies.
What is interesting is a woman sued Lowes in New Jersey on this issue and won in court and Lowes had to provide the exact time the movie was going to start not all the pre main feature junk.
The theater reopend briefly in 1981 by Rusty A Miller who also reopened the Benn on Woodland Ave and the 69th St in Upper Darby. All were short lived. Update information above to show this information.
Bradley Cooper grew up and went to this theater as a child. Sunday morning interviewed him in this theater 2 weeks ago. HE is just a good old neighborhood boy whom everybody adores.
University mall being demolished how sad. I lvied in Tampa from 83-96 and that was the in mall to go to I worked at USF for 10 ½ of those years and it was a great place to go at lunch. Franks theaters have always been shady. I worked for the original owenrs in Atlantic City in the 70’s and Mr & MRs Franks were rude jerks.
I grew up in the area and this was the palce we went to the movies on Saturday. We had 3 great old movie theaters in Uopoer Darby, the Tower, which is stillopen as a concert venue, the Terminal which was demolished when they remodeled the bus terminal and the Stanley Warner 69th St which closed around 1965 and is now a apartment building. Those were the good old days.
My little local theater in downtown Asheville,NC the Fine Arts still uses curtains in bothe theaters. The downstairs theater has curtains that rise up and the upstairs balcony theater has curtains that open across.
Just went to Regal’s web site and the theater is not showing. Up Regal does have a multiplex in NewTown Square which is probably why they closed this theater. It’s about 10 miles away and in a much better area.
Are they leaving the original auditorium intact as a single screen or are they ruining it by cutting it up?
The building had apartments in the upper floors. It is showcased in the original movie Fame. When they built the hotel the only thing that was left of the Palace was the auditorium. The lobby and enterance with the old beautiful marquee was all torn down.The theater was closed for at least 4-5 years. It was reopened in 1991 with The Will Rogers Follies.
Is there a planned scheduled reopening date?
Need to update info above the theater was a twin when it closed.
What is interesting is a woman sued Lowes in New Jersey on this issue and won in court and Lowes had to provide the exact time the movie was going to start not all the pre main feature junk.
Oh great thanks Chuck.
Please Regal here in NC shows at least20-30 minutes of previews which is so annoying.
The theater reopend briefly in 1981 by Rusty A Miller who also reopened the Benn on Woodland Ave and the 69th St in Upper Darby. All were short lived. Update information above to show this information.
Any word yet on the reopening? I sit ever going to happen?
The thing I remember about this theater is it had a turnstill enterance after you bought your ticket.
I went there one time in 1982 to see the re release of Mary Poppins and it was a twin than.
Is this the same Hunt’s theater chain that owned all the movie theaters in Wildwood New Jersey?
That would be great. I would be curious George to know if the origianl cutains and screen still exist.
From what I can tell it looks like it could be the original stage.The screen was on a stage. Do they still have the side boxes in the orchestra?
So is the auditorium intact as far as the stage and screen?
VEry glad the theater will remain in oepration. Would love to see them also show movies.
Bradley Cooper grew up and went to this theater as a child. Sunday morning interviewed him in this theater 2 weeks ago. HE is just a good old neighborhood boy whom everybody adores.
I workd at this theater in 81 and 82.
University mall being demolished how sad. I lvied in Tampa from 83-96 and that was the in mall to go to I worked at USF for 10 ½ of those years and it was a great place to go at lunch. Franks theaters have always been shady. I worked for the original owenrs in Atlantic City in the 70’s and Mr & MRs Franks were rude jerks.
So was the theater demolished?
So gald to hear Les Miz is doing so well at the Ziegfeld. Howard this would have been a perfect movie for out Boyd in Phila. Sigh.
I grew up in the area and this was the palce we went to the movies on Saturday. We had 3 great old movie theaters in Uopoer Darby, the Tower, which is stillopen as a concert venue, the Terminal which was demolished when they remodeled the bus terminal and the Stanley Warner 69th St which closed around 1965 and is now a apartment building. Those were the good old days.
My little local theater in downtown Asheville,NC the Fine Arts still uses curtains in bothe theaters. The downstairs theater has curtains that rise up and the upstairs balcony theater has curtains that open across.
Just went to Regal’s web site and the theater is not showing. Up Regal does have a multiplex in NewTown Square which is probably why they closed this theater. It’s about 10 miles away and in a much better area.
Staus above needs to be changed to closed.