Princess Theatre

If the Princess was still in operation in 1929, it’s possible that there were two different theaters of that name in Oil City. A 2009 comment by kencmcintyre on the Lyric Theatre page cites a 1974 Oil City Derrick photo caption saying that Princess was one of the aka’s for the second Lyric Theatre, at 216-218 Seneca Street. We don’t yet have a page for the first Lyric, but it was at 106-108 Seneca, and was in operation prior to 1916, when it was renovated, and then the Lyric name was moved to the former Orpheum/Princess/Cameo location in 1927. One page says that the house became the Cameo in the early 1920s, so the listing for the Princess in 1929 was either a different house or the FDY just hadn’t gotten around to removing the name from their listings.