Comments from kencmcintyre

Here is a photo circa 1940s:
http://tinyurl.com/c58hfl

Here is a postcard, perhaps late twenties or early thirties:
http://tinyurl.com/cvna7r

Here is a 1942 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/c2njac

The site mentioned on 5/13/08 has added some new photos to its collection:
http://tinyurl.com/ca7ovq

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cl4k5g

Here is another view:
http://tinyurl.com/djjyyp

This is the marquee from the first theater, at closing:
http://tinyurl.com/dn6jju

If you enter the address on this site, you can see the drive-in back in 1972 and the 1950s. It was set back from Firestone Boulevard, as I suspected.
http://tinyurl.com/ddtd55

“Crossed Swords” was playing at the Rossmoor in March 1978, according to this LA Times ad. Click on the ad for a better view.
http://tinyurl.com/d3j9p9

Let’s hope not.

Here is a December 1975 ad from the Oxnard Press Courier:
http://tinyurl.com/dkskja

Here is part of an article in the Wellsboro Gazette dated 3/26/97:

Hollywood stars â€" both past and present â€" came to Wellsboro for the gala reopening of the Arcadia Theatre on Friday night, March 21. As darkness settled on the town of 4,000, a good percentage of that number gathered on the boulevards and outside the Main Street theater to witness the festivities. Brothers John and Jim Dunham arrived at the ribbon, a combination of white ribbon and black film, for the ribbon-cutting ceremony along with state Rep. Matthew E. Baker and Wellsboro Mayor R. Robert DeCamp.

“People wonder why did this happen,” said DeCamp. “It happened because of people like John and Jim Dunham.” The pair had the courage of their convictions to forge ahead with plans to rehabilitate the 75-year-old theater, said DeCamp. They also had the faith that if they completed this project, the people of Tioga County would utilize the first-run movie house. Baker clipped the ribbon, and the star-studded procession began. Classic cars and limousines pulled up to the curb to discharge their tuxedo-clad and sequin-decorated occupants.

The former theater has undergone a transformation since it was closed last October for a conversion to a four-screen complex. The walls are now covered with a dark green faux marble wallpaper decorated with scrollwork border along the top. Floors are covered with a rich green and red patterned covering. The walls have returned to some of their former glory with the decorative scrollwork rectangle in off-white contrasting against a dark green background with highlights of ruby red and gold.