I remember the Duke & Duchess, because two doors down was the Budco Regency. I think I saw the move E.T. at the Regency, I remember crying leaving the movie theatre. If memory serves me right, I think the Regency had an opening in the balcony lobby, a circle where you could look down to the main lobby.
No it was not demolished. Liberty place is built on the 1600 block of Chestnut. Today, the Arcadia/Roy Roger’s building still stands on Chestnut, albeit boarded up. I never recall seeing a film here, but do remember countless times eating at the huge restaurant. You’d enter the front and walk forever to get to the service counter. This was the coolest fast food place in the city because you could go upstairs to the balcony and you could enter from the back entrance off of Ranstead street. I think Roys had a similar restaurnt on the 1200 block of Chestnut St.
I remember the Duke & Duchess, because two doors down was the Budco Regency. I think I saw the move E.T. at the Regency, I remember crying leaving the movie theatre. If memory serves me right, I think the Regency had an opening in the balcony lobby, a circle where you could look down to the main lobby.
No it was not demolished. Liberty place is built on the 1600 block of Chestnut. Today, the Arcadia/Roy Roger’s building still stands on Chestnut, albeit boarded up. I never recall seeing a film here, but do remember countless times eating at the huge restaurant. You’d enter the front and walk forever to get to the service counter. This was the coolest fast food place in the city because you could go upstairs to the balcony and you could enter from the back entrance off of Ranstead street. I think Roys had a similar restaurnt on the 1200 block of Chestnut St.