Ridge Avenue Theatre
1734 Ridge Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19130
1734 Ridge Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19130
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The Ridge Avenue Theatre opened in 1919 with a seating capacity listed as 780. It was equipped with a Moeller 2 manual 51 registers pipe organ. Closed as a motion picture theatre on November 6, 1952 with John Payne in “Tripoli” & Richard Dix in “Wagon Wheels”.
It was converted into a market. The property was purchased in May of 1990 by Alfred Williams and opened as the House of Worship. It was demolished in 2016.
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This 1977 photo shows a theater on Ridge above Lyceum in Roxborough with the partial name “MAN”. I looked at the Philadelphia list and only saw the Goldman on 15th in Center City. Any info on the identity of this theater would be appreciated:
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1951 photo of Ridge Avenue from Dupont Street added via Raymond Storey. Ridge Avenue Theatre marquee is visible down the street.
Judging by the Street View, this building was demolished sometime between October 2016 and June 2017.
Dupont Street is in the Roxborough-Manayunk area, considerably northwest of this site. The theater in that picture is probably the Roxy Theatre.
It seems that the Roxy Theatre was a huge corner building, but the Ridge Avenue Theatre was in the middle of a block like the 1951 photo. So maybe there was another theatre near Dupont Street?
This venue opened in 1911 as a movie house. The Ridge Theatre ceased operations following the November 6, 1952 double feature of “Tripoli” and “Wagon Wheels.”