Ruby Theatre
N. Front Street and E. York Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19133
N. Front Street and E. York Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19133
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Previous Names: Broadway Theatre, New Broadway Theatre
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Apparently built as the Broadway Theatre around 1914. (Not to be confused with a better-known Broadway Theatre on South Broad Street)
It closed as a regular movie theatre in 1955. By 1963 it was operating as the New Broadway Theatre with an adults-only policy. It disappeared from newspaper listings by the end of the 1960’s but turned up again (sporadically, and not for long) with mainstream films as the Ruby Theatre in the 1980’s.
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The 1941 Philadelphia directory has a listing for a New Broadway at Hope & York Streets, which I assume is this theater. There is also a listing for a Ruby Theater at Franklin and Fairmount Avenues. That may be listed here under some other name.
That’s why I try to avoid adding theaters for some of these cities that have several hundred listings. Unless you go through each one, odds are that you will be duplicating an entry somewhere.
Here is a photo from the Philadelphia Buildings & Architects site, from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/32h2nk
This one can be tagged as demolished. A building that appears to be a school now occupies this block. The theater site was on the north side of York west of Front, roughly around the back end of the blue tile-covered building as seen on Street View.