Senate Theater
13-15 N. Second Street,
Harrisburg,
PA
17101
13-15 N. Second Street,
Harrisburg,
PA
17101
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Grand opening ad posted.
That is amazing! Thanks for the link. The Box Office site looks really interesting.
Found some new color slides of the SENATE I took in 1982. These are some of the best yet. Here’s a link to one I just added: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39527581@N07/5857116736/in/photostream/
See also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39527581@N07/sets/72157626759926351/
“And at a deadly pace"
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
to the Senate:
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Thanks, John. As I’ve said, as I kid I first discovered movies at the SENATE over many downtown Saturday matinees. The re-issues of the Disney classic features and the first releases of PETER PAN, THE LIVING DESERT, etc.
Also of course great UI sci-fi thrillers, several in 3-D.
So for better or worse, it’s still a part of my consciousness.
:)
I recently discovered a few color slides of the Senate I didn’t know I had. Exteriors, such as the one I just put on FLICKr. I’ll add them from time to time.
Wish I had some of the interior. I do remember it was a kind of salmon pink with large white Art Deco lights on the side walls.
Yes, a great little movie house.
Thanks for sharing the picture Ross….I think as a child I was there for a Disney movie…I am betting it was a beautiful theater inside.
Here is a new close-up photo of the Senate entrance doors and electric eye:
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Also see: my album of Pennsylvania, California, and a few other vintage cinemas around the world + some ads & a bit of memorabilia:
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SENATE Theatre; THIS ISLAND EARTH:
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The VIRGIN QUEEN (Bette Davis, Joan Collins, CinemaScope) at the Senate. Coming ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY:
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PS: This low angle shot clearly shows the large vertical letters that ran up the front of the building. They are not always visible in some of the other photos.
Organizing my photos for FLICKr I found some pristine color slides of the Senate I didn’t know I had! Here is the first one:
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Just put another ad for Loews Regent in my FLICKr vintage theater album. I try to add new photos from time to time:
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Thanks for the classic ad.Don’t see them anymore in Friday’s paper.
Senate Theatre ad:
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When they built the new city hall where the spot was for yuears,, The spot moved down the street to the corner of Second Street and Walnut Street, It is now out of business,,, Was there for years…I guess you could say it went to the dogs…
Yes there was,,I nnever went there much great hot dogs,, They got busted once for serving dog food with thier cheese steak meat, so I said no way will I eat there again…
Wasn’t there a cool little snack place called The Spot across Market Square from the Senate?
One of my fellow projectionist James Ira Brown worked the Senate for a long time,He finally retirerd at a not so very old age, can’t remember how old Browny was, but not that olld,, anyway the first weekend he had off and did'nt have to go to work he had a fatal heart attack, Damn shame he never got to collect his first retirement check.. I have a hard time with the demolishion too, of any theatre.. Browny and I used to go to a little sandwich shop down the alley from the Senate, We would go get each other food..
Interesting. I always wondered what happened to the remains of the Senate. I have some color photos somewhere. Thanks.
I have to admit I have never gotten over that theater’s demolition. The Senate and the Penway were the key theaters where I first discovered movies when I was growing up.
Harrisburg had little regard for it’s vintage theater history. No downtown theaters survived. Then I went through the whole demolition trauma thing – deja vu all over again – when I lived on the second block of N. Queen St. in Lancaster. But there is happened all at once, within a few weeks and, like some recurring nightmare, my apartment was right in the middle of it!
The letters that spelled out SENATE can be found in the front window of Tri State Music on north 3rd street in the city of Harrisburg.
Great pic(s) Penway
Now on FLICKr:
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More Senate recollections:
I remember seeing Abbott & Costello make a personal appearance at the Senate. This was to promote their film of “Jack and the Beanstalk” so it would have been in 1952.
There were spaces for tall rectangular posters along the alley beside the theater. In the alley behind the theater (next to a five-and-dime) there was a big billboard for a movie ad.
The only other big movie poster billboard I remember was on 3rd St. for the Colonial.