Park Theatre
226 Main Street,
Lehighton,
PA
18235
226 Main Street,
Lehighton,
PA
18235
No one has favorited this theater yet
Additional Info
Previously operated by: A.M. Ellis Theaters Co,
Functions: Bowling Alley
Nearby Theaters
The Park Theatre was opened by 1924. In 1927 a Page theatre organ was installed. By 1950 the Park Theatre was operated by the A.M. Ellis Theaters Co. chain. It was still listed in the 1955 Film Daily Yearbook.
Contributed by
Lost Memory
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater.
Recent comments (view all 4 comments)
An eBay seller had a program from the Park Theatre in Lehighton dated 1924 (no longer available.)
I’ve come across conflicting reports about a theater in Lehighton built in the early 1920s. Sources from 1922 indicate that the Bayer family, operators since around 1908 of the Grand Opera House in Lehighton, were planning to build a new theater. Notices in The American Contractor gave the location as South First Street. Construction was set to begin in April.
However, the Park Theatre didn’t open until 1923, when a notice of the event appeared in the July 31 issue of The Film Daily. But the theater, though operated by the Bayers, was not on First Street. It was located at 100 S. Second Street, where the building is still standing, the auditorium now housing a bowling alley, and the stage house occupied by a dance school.
The 1922 construction journal notices named the Allentown architectural, engineering, and construction firm the Tilghman Moyer Co. as designers of the Bayers' theater project, but I don’t know if that company’s design was kept when the project was built a year later on Second Street.
A small photo of the Park Theatre can be seen on this page at the auction site Worthpoint. There is also a photo of another of Lehighton’s movie houses, the Classic Theatre, which was on Iron Street at First Street.
Was just in Lehighton, this is now a bowling alley, Fritz’s I think was the name.