As most of us can only enjoy our movies today as streaming content on our tvs, who remembers a real hometown movie theater?
For me, as a kid in Camden in the 1950s, I recall spending Saturdays at the Arlo on Westfield Avenue where I could see a newsreel, a few cartoons, and a feature film for a whole quarter.
Imagine the excitement when the talkies came to Palmyra! For Riverton, that was only a brisk walk or a bike ride away.
Bonus question: What business is in its place now?
See the whole Talkies article here.
Please enter a comment below if you can add your recollection of the Broadway Palace to this brief record of another thing that isn’t there anymore. Contact us if you have a photo we could post.
Added 1/22/2021:
Lowell Doerr checked in to contribute this: I remember going to the Saturday kids matinee…cost a dime to get in and after all the seats were full the owner lined up the additional kids and sat them in the runways and exit lanes!!! Money first…Safety last!….LOL
ML DiPietro guessed that a church – Holy Spirit Cathedral – is now in that spot. I said that she was warm, but no.
Added 1/23/2021:
M Gilbert also guessed that the former site of Palmyra’s Broadway Palace Theater is now Holy Spirit Cathedral. I thank MGilbert for persisting with an explanation even though I had mistakenly attributed today’s location to a place two blocks away.
MGilbert points out: I also thought that this was the Holy Spirit Cathedral (corner of Leconey and Broad). The rooflines of the other buildings in the photo look very similar to the ones seen today on that block and on the Palmyra Pharmacy on the next block.
Well, sure, when you explain it like that. No, kidding, thank you for the correction.
-Editor, JMc
Hi John,
I have a picture of the digging of the theater’s foundation with my great grandfather heading the team. Do you have any other pictures of such to confirm the authenticity?
Sincerely,
Glenn