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Boyd Theatre, 1991

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Item No: pdcp01098
Title: Boyd Theatre, 1991
Historic Street Address: 1910 Chestnut Street
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

From "Historic Sites for Preservation," a series of articles for the Philadelphia Inquirer, on history and preservation in Pennsylvania, by Thomas Hine.

This 1991 Inquirer photograph shows movie patrons buying tickets at the Sam Eric 4, formerly the venerable Boyd Theatre.  The Boyd opened in 1928, the largest of the Philadelphia movie palaces of that era. It was purchased by the SamEric Corporation in 1971 and converted into a 4-screen multiplex.  The vertical marquee, added above the original, obscured the historic Art Deco façade.  

The theater outlasted all the others of its kind in Philadelphia, closing in 2002.  After prolonged attempts to save it for historic preservation, the majority of the building was demolished in 2015, leaving only the façade


Creation Year: 1991
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.172390
Geocode Latitude:39.951739

Creator Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm)
Wiliams, Gerald S. - Photographer