For the first two years of my life my family lived in this theater. I have no actual memory but I’ve seen pictures and heard stories. My Dad, John P. Harris, was the manager and an apartment on the second floor came with the job. (Dad was named after his paternal uncle who founded the Nickelodeon in Pittsburgh in 1905.) We moved back to Pittsburgh in 1950 (which conforms with Mr. Vogel’s timeline in his comment dated July 22, 2009.) Following that my Dad managed several Harris theaters, including the Denis in Mount Lebanon and the Perry on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Those two theaters I do remember.
Frank J. Harris
For the first two years of my life my family lived in this theater. I have no actual memory but I’ve seen pictures and heard stories. My Dad, John P. Harris, was the manager and an apartment on the second floor came with the job. (Dad was named after his paternal uncle who founded the Nickelodeon in Pittsburgh in 1905.) We moved back to Pittsburgh in 1950 (which conforms with Mr. Vogel’s timeline in his comment dated July 22, 2009.) Following that my Dad managed several Harris theaters, including the Denis in Mount Lebanon and the Perry on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Those two theaters I do remember. Frank J. Harris