Preservation After The Trocadero’s Closing, Preservationists Ponder Saving The Interior Philly's famous Trocadero Theater closed in May after 149 years of continuous use. Protections are already in place for the facade of the building, but can the interior be saved too? Kimberly Haas takes a ...
Preservation A Life Of Community Service For Theaters In North Philly The legendary Uptown Theater is gearing up for its 90th anniversary this month with a new fundraising campaign and the lighting of its original marquee. To mark the occasion, cinema scholar Joan McGettigan gives us ...
Preservation LIGHTS! MUSIC! ACTION! Historic Lansdowne Theater Poised For A Comeback After 30 years' slumber, Lansdowne's sumptuous Art Deco movie palace is ready to wake up, and rouse Main Street too, with music and community spirit. Ben Leech has the ...
Architecture Unlisted Philadelphia: Locust Theatre Ben Leech spotlights unique and significant buildings not listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places with his architectural illustration series, Unlisted Philadelphia. In this installment, a marvelous movie house in West ...
Photography A Royal Loss On South Street In the midst of demolition, Michael Bixler takes a walk inside the brittle bones of the Royal Theater with this photo ...
Architecture Marked Potential: Roosevelt Theater In Frankford, the Roosevelt Theater faces the El like a careworn sentry guarding the legacy of the city's last movie palaces. Shila Griffith invigorates the empty, ivory giant with a photography and filmmaking center for ...
History First Run: Camden’s Claim As Birthplace Of The Drive-in Theater Drive-in theaters were once synonymous with American automobile culture, summertime, and Saturday night. Now, only approximately 338 are still in operation today. Contributor Bart Everts takes us across the river to Camden where the world's ...
Development Redevelopment Plans For The Royal Theater Go Under Review Plans to replace the Royal Theater with a 5 story luxury apartment complex and retail space will go before Historical Commission's Architectural Committee next week. Universal Companies and Dranoff Properties has proposed partial demolition of ...
