Milgram Theatre
1620 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19103
1620 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19103
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Hello,
Many years ago I was doing some work in a Philadelphia home. In between the wall and the stairs to the second floor I found a coin (token)? with the words The Stanton Theater 16th and Market sts. The lettering is raised and in very good condition.
I have tried to find out information on it but to no avail.
Maybe somebody at this site can tell me a bit more about something of this nature.
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Hello, Talented artist I don’t know the value of the tickets,I would
Buy a pair from you if you wanted to sell. I have some photos of the stanton(milgram,and other theaters from the 1970’s.
Do you have any photo’s?
If your interested please email me
thanks
jimmy
WANTED:Information…Hello everyone! I live in Virginia and came across this site because Im doing research on this particular theatre. A few years back, I was antiqueing and came across a small ziplock bag that has 35 mint condition (never used)“Stanton Theatre” tickets. These tickets are dated November 16, 1964 and April 10, 1965. Im pretty sure they are tickets to this particular theatre. The company that printed the tickets (in small letters says: Globe Ticket Co. Phila). The tickets come in 5 different colors: Orange, Brown, Dark Grey, Light Grey (almost white), and royal purple. Im curious to know if they are of any value historically…I would think so. They are fascinating! I have noticed the colors seem to pertain to the different sections within the theatre. Some say orchestra (purple), others say first balcony (dark Grey), Loge (Orange)etc. These tickets are 40 years old and I went to the PAB website and saw the pictures of the theatre…stunning is all I can say! It truely is a shame they demolished such a beautiful and historicl theatre. Any information on them, their value, or possibly what I should do with them other than keep them framed would be great! Cheers!
Lee
Jimmy Adams above asked if “anybody remember watching Earthquake in sesurround…”. Yes, I have a funny story about “Earthquake” in Senssurround at the Boyd (SamEric). Picture this: Friday opening night, theatre including balcony full, I had already seen it in the orchestra, wanted to checkout the Senssound in the balcony (like downstairs, 4 huge Cerwin-Vega or JBL boxes you could dance inside of in each corner). The film begins…as you recall, the 1st earthquake sequence begins roughly 40-45 minutes into the film. About 10 minutes prior to that, a little teenage girl apparently gets the hungries, leaves her seat to go to concessions and comes back upstairs arms loaded to the hilt with popcorn, sodas, hotdogs, candy, whatever. She’s about halfway up the stairs with her groceries when rhe rumbling begins. I will never forget the look on her face. As she turns around to look at the screen with this expression of sheer horror, she starts screaming, popcorn, sodas, wieners, candy bars fly all over the place. That side of the balcony absolutely rocked with laughter!
The Stage door cinema was this little movie theater in the back of the fox theater, I remember when I saw (the exorcist) in 1972
I waited in line over 2 hours to see this movie,and we were so scared after the movie ended,we went to see another movie to try to forget what we just saw. The 1970’s where the best time for movies in phila does anybody remember watching Earthquake in sensuround, at
the sameric theater?
please if anyone has old photos of these theaters let me know.
I have some to trade.
JImmy
Hi andy do you have photos of the milgram theater I would love to see them I collected alot of photos from the pab website.
I can e mail you some photos if you like.
thanks
jimmy
I worked at the Milgram, Fox and Stage Door Cinema in the arly 70’s while in High school. Movies that played there at the time: “Carnal Knowledge” “A Clockwork Orange”, “The Godfather”, “PLay it as it Lays”, “The Other”, “The Emigrants”. One of the managers there was Bob Beck, is there anyone out there who worked there. The Stage Door Cinema was the stage for the Fox Theatre.
Andy P.
I vividly remember the Milgram theater, along with the Goldman, the Stage Door Cinema, the Fox (hated that one because of the old architecture artwork design at the very top edge of the building), the Duke & Duchess, and the Sameric. Of all of those theaters, the Milgram was my favorite. I remember going to the Milgram to see “Cleopatra Jones,” “Melinda,” “Trouble Man” and other “blaxploitation” films of the time. I was only a kid at the time, but I remember it well. There was a great steak house about two doors down from the Milgram, on the corner of 16th and Market, where they cooked charcoil broiled steaks on an open grill, and had the best lemon meringue pie I think I’ve ever tasted in my life…
I remember I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the Milgram theatre
in 1975 and I waited in line for 1 hour just to get in the place.
It was a big theatre with an upstairs.I was only a kid with my dad
but it was the greatest time I ever had, A great time in my life,
They don’t make theatres like that anymore,and why are they tearing
them down?
I remember the Duke & Duchess, because two doors down was the Budco Regency. I think I saw the move E.T. at the Regency, I remember crying leaving the movie theatre. If memory serves me right, I think the Regency had an opening in the balcony lobby, a circle where you could look down to the main lobby.