Diamond Theatre

2119-2123 Germantown Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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m00se1111
m00se1111 on October 12, 2025 at 2:14 pm

APM has a website featuring historical images of the venue, as well as a theatre history which might help bump up the above.

They are in need of donations for renovations to Teatro Puerto Rico.

https://apmphila.org/get-involved/teatro-puerto-rico/

Hoping this historic venue reopens soon, helping the development of the neighborhood.

amby_moho
amby_moho on October 12, 2025 at 10:17 am

This building has been historically preserved, and has been acquired by local Puerto Rican nonprofit APM, to be rehabbed and restored!!!

amby_moho
amby_moho on January 19, 2022 at 7:55 pm

Obsessed with this building. Hoping to get it nominated

rivest266
rivest266 on October 7, 2016 at 9:29 pm

Riot on July 27th, 1937.

https://philly.newspapers.com/clip/6933981/diamond_theatre_riot/

TheALAN
TheALAN on February 5, 2014 at 6:22 am

Would anyone be able to share when this theater closed? After its closure, a Puerto Rican congregation used the space for religious services. Today, the building appears vacant. “FOR SALE” is scribbled on the façade.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 12, 2009 at 4:25 am

Here is an undated photo from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/yakgkkb

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 9, 2009 at 7:37 pm

Here is a contemporary view. The building is still standing but is not in use:
http://tinyurl.com/qmowk4

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 12, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Here is a 1967 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/38cj4a

RickB
RickB on September 17, 2004 at 3:52 pm

I believe this building was originally called the Diamond Theater. The actual address was on Germantown Avenue, a diagonal street that passes very close to the 6th & Diamond intersection. In the ‘80s this theater would occasionally show up in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s neighborhood movie listings; by then the films were typical Hollywood releases but the theater was still called the Puerto Rico.