Clifton Theatre
209 E. Baltimore Avenue,
Clifton Heights,
PA
19018
209 E. Baltimore Avenue,
Clifton Heights,
PA
19018
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Additional Info
Architects: Donald Folsom, William Macy Stanton
Firms: Folsom & Stanton
Functions: Beauty Salon
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Clifton Theatre was opened prior to 1914. The theatre was still open in 1957. The building still exists at the corner of S. Penn Street, for many years in use as a moving and storage company office. By 2021 it is in use as a barber’s shop.
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Recent comments (view all 6 comments)
There is no way this theater closed in the 1970’s. I grew up in Clifton Heights and it was not there even in the early 60s'. It is interesting to see the theater.
I’ve lived in this area since the early 50’s and I don’t remember this theatre, I do know where this building is.
I checked, the movie on the marquee “The Walking Hills” came out in 1949!
I know this theater was not there in the 70’s or the 60’s for that fact.
A building permit for a moving picture theater at Clifton Heights was issued to a J. A. Simmons in 1920, but there is evidence that the Clifton Theatre was in operation prior to 1914. It is possible that the permit was for an expansion or rebuilding of the Clifton, or it might have been for a different theater that we do not have listed.
The pre-1920 existence of the Clifton Theatre is indicated by an article in Film Bulletin of November 13, 1934, about a church-led boycott of all movies that had been going on for five months, leading to the bankruptcy of several independent theater operators in the region:
Now a barber shop.