Stadium Theatre

3300 S. Broad Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19145

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Stadium Theatre

Located on South Broad Street, the Stadium Theatre opened in 1967 seating 750. Closed as a theatre, it was demolished for retail space.

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hondo59
hondo59 on November 30, 2006 at 11:25 am

The Stadium Theater, along with Veterans Stadium and Aquarama, are all gone.

hondo59
hondo59 on November 30, 2006 at 2:56 pm

Thanks, Lost Memory. I remember seeing it many times but I never saw a film there. It was just a typical 1960s box.

Mikeoaklandpark
Mikeoaklandpark on November 30, 2006 at 3:55 pm

This theater was built when they demolished the South Phils drive in to build Veterans stadium. After being in operation a few years it was twinned then just closed.It probibly closed around 1973 when George Hamid closed his theater sin Atlantic City.

mh052
mh052 on December 20, 2006 at 11:18 pm

The Stadium Theater was still in operation in the late 1970s/early 1980s. In 1979, the theater was still full-sized and showing films @ $1 at all times. Example – “The Champ” (Jon Voight; Ricky Schroeder), and “The China Syndrome” (Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, and Michael Douglas). In the early 1980s, the theater was closed, twinned, changed management, and renamed as Cinema South (i.e. twin theater). After a short stint as the Cinema South, the theater closed permanently. In both cases, feature presentations were limited to nightly performances only.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Here is a photo of the Cinema South, post-closure:
http://tinyurl.com/yq8ow8

ediemer
ediemer on June 22, 2009 at 4:20 am

I remember seeing this theater while leaving the stadium-it was still full-sized and showing films for $1, and it definitely said “70mm” on the marquee. I think the film was “Superman” at the time and wondered why the place was never advertised.

Mikeoaklandpark
Mikeoaklandpark on May 21, 2010 at 9:13 pm

They did show Superman in 70mm for a $1.00. If you look on the posting for the Virginia Theater in Atlantic City, Hamid would bring the 70mm equipment from the Virginia to use in the Stadium during the winter months.

mh052
mh052 on July 5, 2010 at 6:46 am

That’s very interesting because I recall another theater showing Superman in 70mm for $1 at the same time; Parkwood Theater in the Parkwood Manor Shopping Center (Far Northeast, Phila, Pa.). However, the Parkwood’s newspaper ad made reference to its 70mm presentation (i.e. in the ad itself), and the Stadium’s ad made no reference to it (at least to my recollection). The Parkwood’s marquee also said 70mm. I viewed the film at the Fox in center city in four (4) track Dolby Stereo, presumably in 35mm (film was shot in 35mm Panavision). The Parkwood and Stadium’s showings were probably anamorphic “blow-ups streched to fit 70mm projection.

rivest266
rivest266 on October 9, 2016 at 12:12 pm

This opened on June 28th, 1967. Its grand opening ad in the photo section.

veyoung52
veyoung52 on September 1, 2017 at 2:07 am

mh052 said, “The Stadium Theater was located just across the street from another George A. Hamid enterprise; namely, Aquarama, Theater of the Sea (Philly’s own big-time aquarium showplace), right on South Btroad St.” Someone please explain how both the Stadium Theatre and Aquarama, if they were physically across the street from each other shared the same building address, namely 3300 South Broad Street, during the same time period.

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