old photos of Harrisburg's film theaters - the Rio, Roxy, Senate and greater

At one time there were many film theaters in Harrisburg.

if you wanted to look a movie in Harrisburg your alternate options blanketed here theaters and flicks marketed in the April 1, 1949 Patriot:

Colonial, 229 Market St.: "The going for walks Hills" starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines.

Loew's, 410 Market St., MGM's Technicolor musical, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams and Gene Kelly.

Senate, 12-15 N. 2nd St., "murder, My candy" with Dick Powell and Mike Mazurki and for only two extra days, Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" with Lex Barker and Brenda Joyce. a large ad for the Senate observed, "starting Wednesday at the Senate, the sensational photo you may have been hearing about, eighty savage minutes ripped from a man's battered physique and a girl's tormented soul – 'The Set-Up.' here is her man. She need to listen to the crowd cry 'Kill Him!' Starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter.

Rio, 323 Walnut St., apartment of Hits, "The large Sombrero" with Gene Autry and "Rusty Saves a life."

State, 208 Locust St., This yr's Academy Award winners, Jane Wyman in "Johnny Belinda," and "Treasure of Sierra Madre" with Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.

wide, 1302 N. Third St., "Cannon city" with Scott Brady and Jeff Corey.

Capitol, 7 S. thirteenth St., Walt Disney's most up-to-date hit "Melody Time" with Roy Rogers, and, "Code of the West" with James Warren.

Grand, 1426 Derry St., "Command resolution" with Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon.

country wide, 1818 N. Sixth St., "Three Muskateers" with Lana Turner and Gene Kelly.

Penway, 1800 State St., "Rogues Regiment" with Dick Powell, Marta Toren and Vincent price.

Rialto, 1537 N. Third St., "apartment for Peggy" starring Jeanne Crain and William Holden.

Roxy, 123 S. thirteenth St., "April Showers" with Jack Carson and Ann Sothern.

megastar, 1205 N. Third St., "I be aware Mama" with Irene Dunne and Barbara Bell Geddes and "song of the barren region."

other theaters of the past in Harrisburg are the Victoria, 221-223 Market St.; Uptown, North Fourth and Schuylkill streets; and the Bijou Theatre at 214 Locust St.

in response to the old Society of Dauphin County the Bijou "became in-built 1822 with the aid of John Wyeth, publisher of 'The Oracle' newspaper, and at the beginning referred to as the Shakespeare corridor. because of lack of gains, the building become transformed into the Shakespeare condo lodge. In 1858 it grew to be the Harrisburg feminine Seminary. This photograph become taken around the flip of the century when the constructing contained the theatre and a dime museum. around 1907 the constructing considered here turned into demolished, and in its place turned into built the Telegraph building, which stood except 1977. nowadays, it is a parking garage."

in keeping with a Patriot-information Cornerstone column written by means of Mary O. Bradley, the Rio Theatre changed into on Walnut road. It changed into in-built 1908 and commenced as the Majestic Theatre that includes shows together with "No, No, Nanette" and "Rose Marie."

"It also doubled as a movie theater and in 1938 settled into its ultimate identification as a first-run movie theater, the Rio Theatre, opening with Frank Capra's 'You can not Take It With You.' It endured to demonstrate satisfactory film fare except the late-1940's when it slipped into double-function B-movie programming and a remaining unhappy decline," Bradley wrote. The theater become razed in 1955. Strawberry square now occupies most of that area.

The Colonial Theatre opened in 1912 – in a constructing that had been developed in in 1834 and had up to now been a hotel. customers paid a dime to see four vaudeville indicates and a nickel to look a silent movie, based on Bradley. "For many years it turned into a first-run movie apartment with precise-notch films," Bradley wrote. a hearth struck the theater in 1978. It partially collapsed in 1983.

The State Theater opened in April 1926 and protected 2,100 seats. It closed in 1973 and was razed for an workplace constructing.

The Uptown Theater at 2501 N. Fourth St. turned into the ultimate to open in Harrisburg. The seven hundred-seat theater opened in October 1949. It had a soundproof "cry room" for parents with toddlers, a dozen seats had hearing aids and it turned into the first local theater to have a customized Starke Cycloramic screen. It also had a television lounge and a small automobile parking space. The constructing changed into offered to Polyclinic clinic in 1966 and leased lower back to the theater operator. The theater closed in 1972 and was later razed for a parking storage for the health center.