On Saturday afternoons in the early 60s the Admiral charged us kids a quarter admission and ran two feature films and cartoons. WOW…a quarter! There was a nickel ice cream machine in the lobby that required spinning a large metal disk, that sat on top of the machine, a complete 360 degrees to release your ice cream bar. I believe that the Admiral was one of 2 theaters in Philadelphia that ran 70mm films. Anyone remember DeeDee’s pizza on Lehigh Avenue and Fairhill Street? I lived at 6th and Huntingdon Streets.
This theater was across the street from the Good and Plenty candy factory and the Dawn Donuts bakery where the customers would enter a narrow driveway and park on a large metal disk which would spin and place the car in the opposite direction so the customers could purchase their donuts and exit through the sane narrow driveway. In the early 60s, for 3 dollars, one could purchase 10 dozen cull-donuts in the late afternoon before the bakery closed. It’s funny….. I don’t recall seeing any policemen at the bakery. HUMMM!
On Saturday afternoons in the early 60s the Admiral charged us kids a quarter admission and ran two feature films and cartoons. WOW…a quarter! There was a nickel ice cream machine in the lobby that required spinning a large metal disk, that sat on top of the machine, a complete 360 degrees to release your ice cream bar. I believe that the Admiral was one of 2 theaters in Philadelphia that ran 70mm films. Anyone remember DeeDee’s pizza on Lehigh Avenue and Fairhill Street? I lived at 6th and Huntingdon Streets.
This theater was across the street from the Good and Plenty candy factory and the Dawn Donuts bakery where the customers would enter a narrow driveway and park on a large metal disk which would spin and place the car in the opposite direction so the customers could purchase their donuts and exit through the sane narrow driveway. In the early 60s, for 3 dollars, one could purchase 10 dozen cull-donuts in the late afternoon before the bakery closed. It’s funny….. I don’t recall seeing any policemen at the bakery. HUMMM!
WONDERED IF ANYONE ATTENDED OR REMEMBERS ONE OF THE STAGE SHOWS IN EITHER 1959 OR 1960 WHEN “JIMMY DURANTE” PERFORMED? I WAS ONLY 5 OR 6.
THX
HOWIE