Coliseum Theatre
34 Maple Street,
Stoneboro,
PA
16153
34 Maple Street,
Stoneboro,
PA
16153
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This simple theater appears on the 1925 Sanborn. It was a one-story wooden building with a stage tower at the rear, and rather oddly located behind some houses off the main road. It’s unclear when it was constructed, but the block is nearly empty on the 1910 map.
The Coliseum Theatre was still open in 1928, but had closed by 1929. It was demolished long ago, and the neighborhood is entirely residential. The house on the lot may be from about 1940.
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The Coliseum was the only house listed at Stoneboro in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The September 26, 1914 issue of The New York Clipper had two ads from Stoneboro in sequence:
So the Coliseum was new in 1914, and originally featured live performances, but had to have been equipped for movies as well, or it wouldn’t have been listed in the AMPD.The only mention of the house I’ve found in the movie theater industry trade journals is this item from the October 21, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World: “Tom Greer, of the Coliseum Theatre, Stoneboro, Pa., recently motored to Pittsburgh in his flivver, and was arrested here for speeding. But Tom got out of his trouble. He told the cop he had just assembled the car and forgot to put the slow parts back into it.”