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stagehand113 commented about Princess Theatre on Jul 23, 2013 at 6:23 pm

Address of The Princess Theater was 1109 State Street. It was part of “Theater Row”. The building where the Princess was located is now part of the Plymouth Tavern. There were also 2 theaters on Theater Row… The Star and The Grand. As a child growing up in the 50s, I remember that the building still had part of the marquis over the front…It was right next door to Perry Beauty Supply.

stagehand113
stagehand113 commented about Columbia Theatre on Jul 21, 2013 at 9:16 pm

Warner Brothers also operated the old Strand on State Street until it was demolished in the late 40s for the old GC Murphy’s, and built the present structure on West 10th app. 1948. In 1971, Congress passed a law that the movie studios could not own the theaters in which their films were shown, so the Warner and Strand were sold to Cinemette. For a couple years, the Strand on West 10th also installed a Cinerama Screen and equipment., but later removed it to go back to the original format.

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stagehand113 commented about Columbia Theatre on Jul 21, 2013 at 9:06 pm

The Columbia Theater was located on the south side of West 8th Street between Peach and State Sts. in Erie, PA. It was demolished in 1969 and the lot sat empty for years. Both my father and grandfather worked at the Columbia. A 1918 advertisement for the Columbia lists it as “Erie’s most delightful photoplay theater” and also a place to “see filmdom’s greatest productions in the house of "super” pictures."