Photographer Philip Jablon captures the Empress in its current life.
Our prolific Philadelphia member Howard B. Haas shares news of photos of a historic but long hidden Philadelphia movie theatre, the Empress later Riviera, in the Manayunk neighborhood
“The Empress opened in 1914 as a mixed-use vaudeville/motion picture theater that seated 1,500 people. . .”
Be sure to click on the link to the author/photographer’s Southeast Asia Theatre Project blog at the very bottom.
Urban archaeology at its finest. Been there, done that…still love it.