1911: The Broad Street Theater

Not to be confused with the RKO Broad Theater which was also on South Broad Street, the original Broad Street Theater is illustrated above in a graphic I created especially remembering the late, lamented RKO Palace Theater which replaced the Broad Street Theater. I remember there was a little novelty shop across the street from the Palace when I was a boy. It was filled with all types of inexpensive novelties: magic tricks, cap guns, fake ink blots, fake broken glass, and other "junk store" stuff that we kids loved. The Palace? I was only there once, way back in the late 40's.