Family Theatre
230 Penn Avenue,
Scranton,
PA
18503
230 Penn Avenue,
Scranton,
PA
18503
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I don’t know why I forgot this, as I mentioned it on the Manhattan Theatre page a few hours ago, but the Family Theatre on S. Main Avenue was in operation by 1916. It was a Comerford house.
Scranton had multiple houses called the Family Theatre. The only references to the Family Theatre on Penn Avenue I’ve come across in the newspapers so far are from 1932 and 1933.
Much earlier, there was a house called the Family Theatre at 221 Lackawanna Avenue, in operation at least as far back as 1892, but it probably never showed movies. In 1905, a new Family Theatre opened at 330 Adams Avenue. In 1906 it was operating as a Sullivan & Considine vaudeville house. This one might have run movies.
By the mid-1920s, there was a movie house called the Family Theatre operating at 402 South Main Avenue. I’ve been unable to discover how long it lasted, or what became of it.
Family Theatre Was located on 200 block Penn ave down from the Captial
New Townhouses now pccupy this site.