Friends of the Boyd
One block from Rittenhouse Square, on Chestnut Street between 19th St and 20th St, in 1928 was built a remarkable building – The Boyd Theatre. Philadelphia’s last movie palace was called the Sam Eric when it closed in May, 2002. In 2015-16, the聽auditorium was聽demolished for replacement with a residential tower,聽but the Chestnut Street facade and lobbies remain.
Help us continue to advocate the restoration of the surviving portions of this Philadelphia landmark and help us to publicize its long and wonderful history.
Friends of the Boyd, Inc. have now donated the Boyd’s Century “Cinerama” 35/70 movie projectors to the Ambler Theater 聽in the Philadelphia suburbs, which has a display of vintage movie projectors.聽 For decades, these projectors were used to showcase movies. They have glass panels that say Cinerama. The Ambler 聽was built as a movie palace in the Spanish Colonial style in 1928, the same year as the Boyd. It is now a triplex operated by a nonprofit organization and continues to showcase topnotch movies on a da
Friends of the Boyd