Park Theatre
119 E. Main Street,
Somerset,
PA
15501
119 E. Main Street,
Somerset,
PA
15501
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In 1947, the theater was renamed as the Park Theatre to match its former name. It was closed as late as September 17, 1953.
I just read the comment above mine… 119 E Main makes sense.
107 E Main would place this theatre on the other side of the Grand, which was at 113 E Main. The address here would then be 115 or 117 E Main.
The correct name of this house was the Par-K Theatre. According to this web page, the Somerset Theatre Corporation was incorporated on January 1, 1935, and its address was given as the Par-K Theatre, 119 E. Main Street, Somerset.
According to an article in the March 12, 1938, issue of The Record-Argus of Greenville, Pennsylvania, the Blatt Brothers bought the Par-K Theatre from C. B. Pascoe in 1928. The Somerset Theatre Corporation was most likely a subsidiary formed to manage Blatt Brothers holdings in Somerset, where the circuit also operated the Grand Theatre and, later, the Governor Theatre, opened in 1938.
I found the Park Theatre at Somerset mentioned in the September 23, 1932, issue of The Bedford Gazette from Bedford, Pennsylvania.
As Somerset no longer uses one and two-digit addresses, the Park Theatre was probably at modern 107 E. Main, although there’s no guarantee that the last digits of new addresses would match up perfectly with the old addresses. This is one of the places we could really use a Sanborn map, or at least some old photos.