American Theater

512 W. 18th Street,
Erie, PA 16502

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rivest266
rivest266 on June 11, 2023 at 12:18 pm

Closed or stopped placing ads in 1954

rivest266
rivest266 on June 11, 2023 at 3:55 am

The American theatre opened on August 28th, 1916. Grand opening ad posted.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 25, 2014 at 6:07 pm

The American Picture Playhouse, 510 w. 18th St., is on a 1918 list that can be found on this page of Old Time Erie.

MDaurora
MDaurora on March 7, 2011 at 6:58 am

This was a small neighborhood theater in the “Little Italy” section of Erie. It was one of three movie houses in a two block stretch of 18th St. Not sure when the American was built, but it closed in 1953. It sat vacant until it was demolished January 1974. Today, the site is a parking lot. At the time it was demolished, the owner Bob Lee, who bought the theater in 1947, said it closed due to the impact of television and the economics of converting to Cinemascope. The address given in the newspaper account of its demolition was 504 W 18th St.