I looked again at these pictures and I’m fairly certain theater 2 is the Eric Twin that was on Ridge Ave in Roxborough. Looks like its a dollar store today:
7036 Ridge Ave
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19128
United States
Great historical research on theaters in the Germantown, Mt Airy and Chestnut Hill area:
http://www.friendsofimmaculate.com/Germantown’s%20Theatres.htm
I’m certain that the interior lobby photo is the Eric Twin Chestnut Hill. This was in Market Square on Stenton Avenue. I rubbed noses with the two white dog statues many times as a child. Fond memories of family dinners in the back room (with all of its old movie posters and statuettes of Laurel and Hardy) of a great restaurant called Pic-a-Deli, followed by a movie at the Eric twin which was in the center of the shopping mall that was layed out like a park. Saw almost every movie they played there. The line for “Return of the Jedi” was the longest I’ve ever seen (played on both screens). Mel Brooks’s “Dracula” was the last film I saw there on a trip home from college. Please add this theater to the registry, as it was the theater of choice for kids who grew up in Philadelphia’s Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods in the 70’s and 80’s.
Behind the dunkin donuts.
I looked again at these pictures and I’m fairly certain theater 2 is the Eric Twin that was on Ridge Ave in Roxborough. Looks like its a dollar store today: 7036 Ridge Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19128 United States
Great historical research on theaters in the Germantown, Mt Airy and Chestnut Hill area: http://www.friendsofimmaculate.com/Germantown’s%20Theatres.htm
—A community which to this day remains in desperate need of an art house cinema!
I’m certain that the interior lobby photo is the Eric Twin Chestnut Hill. This was in Market Square on Stenton Avenue. I rubbed noses with the two white dog statues many times as a child. Fond memories of family dinners in the back room (with all of its old movie posters and statuettes of Laurel and Hardy) of a great restaurant called Pic-a-Deli, followed by a movie at the Eric twin which was in the center of the shopping mall that was layed out like a park. Saw almost every movie they played there. The line for “Return of the Jedi” was the longest I’ve ever seen (played on both screens). Mel Brooks’s “Dracula” was the last film I saw there on a trip home from college. Please add this theater to the registry, as it was the theater of choice for kids who grew up in Philadelphia’s Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods in the 70’s and 80’s.