Embassy Theatre
416 Main Street,
Johnstown,
PA
15901
416 Main Street,
Johnstown,
PA
15901
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Previously operated by: Fabian Theaters, Wilmer & Vincent Corp.
Previous Names: Nemo Theatre
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A conversion of a former Presbyterian church. Opened in 1913 as the 1,000-seat Nemo Theatre. In late-1918 a balcony seating area was added. It was listed as (Closed) in 1933. It reopened around 1935 as the Embassy Theatre, and was closed in 1988. It was one of several theatres on Main Street in Johnstown.
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Here is a 1987 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ykamz2e
Good exterior shots of this theater in the parade scenes of the 1977 movie Slap Shot with Paul Newman. The marquee has a double bill of Deep Throat and something called Meatball.
Whittle Randy’s book “Johnstown: A History” says that the Embassy Theatre opened in 1913 as the Nemo Theatre.
July 1977 photo added credit Pat Little, Johnstown Flood.
This information about the Embassy Theatre is from a PDF published by the Historic American Buildings Survey (link):
I would regularly attend movies at the Embassy, or the nearby State Theater, in the 1970s. I saw Santa Claus Conquers the Martians at one of them with my dad in 1971. It remains one of those childhood faves for me.
The September 7, 1918 issue of The Moving Picture World noted a planned expansion of the Nemo Theatre: “L. W. Barclay, of the Grand Amusement Co., Johnstown, Pa., [says] that the Nemo will be shut down to permit a balcony to be built, adding materially to the capacity of this house, which already seats 1,000.”
I added a 1954 street view in Photos.