Roosevelt Theatre
4739 Frankford Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19124
4739 Frankford Avenue,
Philadelphia,
PA
19124
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2019 street view: Still closed, same sign
September 2014 Google Street View: Building is now vacant, available for lease as retail or office space.
My paternal grandmother played the organ for silent movies at the Roosevelt Theatre during the theatre’s early years. Cathryn Bircher Cooper. She’d studied music in New York. She had to improvise to what she saw on the movie screen. I never met her. She died in her mid 30’s in the mid-1930’s when my father was a boy.
was this the theater that closed and was a Sears Surplus store in the 70’s and 80’s?
I recall the inside of the theater had little fake porticos all around the sides, making it look like there were small loges or balconies. I saw “Gone with the Wind” here on a re-run sometime in the 50s.
Stores are now where the lobby was once located.
The Roosevelt Theatre is still standing, along with Stanley Warner’s Circle Theatre, which was one block south. The Frankford Theatre was demolished, and a now-vacant Pearle Vision center stands in the Frankford’s site.
I beleive at one point, The Roosevelt and The Frankford were owned by Stanley Warner Theatres, who also owned The Circle Theatre, The Allegheny Theatre, and The Midway Theatre (all which were near the PRT/PTC/SEPTa Market-Frankford Line)