The Arlo was great. I recall the Saturday double feature matinees. Cost under a dollar I think. I know my brother and I would sometimes collect soda bottles then cash them in and go to the Arlo. Mom would give us admission money, the soda bottle money was for candy. I also have memories of candy being thrown around the Arlo, small battles between kids seated at opposite ends of the theater, during dull parts of the movies. I think my brother usually started those.
So that was YOU throwing the candy, Ken? Always wondered. Loved the art-deco theme of the place. Went in there after it had been converted to see a couple of fights. No, not between the patrons but between actual boxers. Some of the bouts were pretty lame, but a few were pretty good. I think I saw Rossman, The Jewish Bomber (from Cherry Hill, I think) there. Pretty good card for the time.
In the mid 50’s we had the Victoria.
Sat. double feature,10 cartoons and a serial.
The admission .15 cents!!!
Then the Arlo opened up,and everone wanted to go there because it was brand new…but the parents were outraged because the admission was .20 cents…what a nerve,charging that much!..LOL
In 1956 I used to get $1.00 every Friday for my allowance,but back then that went a long way.
I remember the first time I went to the Arlo Movie Theater. My brother Michael took me and I remember he left me there. I was crying and my Mother had to come get me.
I can remember getting in for 25 cents and getting a quarter to spend on candy. They used to sell bon bons (chocoate covered ice cream) but that costed your whole quarter. My sister and I would love when it was crowded and we got to go up in the balcony. Cinderlla, Snow White were favorites. This was in the late 50s early 60s. Was a special treat to get to go. We lived on 31st Street.
I remember the Arlo, would spend all day there just hanging out with friends. Sometimes would get thrown out by usher Jim Cleary. It was a place to makeout because it was dark(someone told me that)
I remember the Arlo and the Rio at 27th and River Road. It was 10 cents for the movie, hoagies were 25 cents for a half and 50 cents for a whole one, and then they went up to 35 and 70 cents. I remember seeing the Abominable Snowman at the Rio and was scared to death for days when I tried to sleep. How stupid of me, but I was only a kid.
Whichever one was at 27th & Federal (Arlo?) was where, when I was home for the weekend from the Marine Corps, and took my date to the movies, and because of my size, we both paid the regular price (.25 each?) or was that the adult price anyway?
Wow, what great memories of the movie theatre. I would see every Elvis movie with the kids in my neighborhood. Anyone remember the Federici’s? We would come home and reinact the whole movie. I also can remember going to see the movie “Where the boys are? with Connie Francis and stayed for the next movie time so I could see it again. Hid in the girl’s bathroom, only to have my dad walking down the aisle with the usher and his flashlite calling my name. I had no idea of time, I went to the 1:00 matinee and when we came out of the Arlo it was pitch black outside. I remember getting kicked out one time because Ronnie Federici took off my shoe and throw it up while the movie was on. LOL
I remember seeing ‘Jailhouse Rock” about 8 times.
All the would be teenaged Elvis impersonators would be dancing in the aisles when the title song came on,my friend Phil (Bachelor) was one & Jack (Catlin (sp) ) another…LOL
The name
Federici sounds familiar,but a lot of names on this site do.
I am 66 years old…any Federici’s my age.
You know what it may have been Jimmy Ferderico that I went to school with,not Federici
I was a cashier at the Arlo (1964-65). The Saturday matinees were 25 cents for kids. Every Saturday a few little rowdy kids would be kicked out by Mr. Dana (the manager). If it was within the first 10-15 min., he would refund the quarter. If it was later, too bad!
We would send one guy in as a paying customer & he would sit near the fire exit.
When the lights went out he would slip down onto the floor,crawl under the heavy drapes,and make sure the were back in place…didn’t want any daylight to show thru.
He would then open the exit door (no alarms on them back then) and the rest of us would slip in,close the door quietly and sit there until our eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Then we crawled under the drapes,took a seat & watched the movie…We were just a wee bit bad in those days.
Some times we got caught by the manager,I think his name was Frank…other times he would notice us after the fact & just smile at us.
There was an usher,a big guy ,teenager with a crew cut (blonde) ,who wasn’t too kind…he liked to rough us up a little while throwing us out…think his name may have been Fred.
I guess that exit door was well known because our gang did the same exact thing.It was .25 for twelve and under and we said we were 12
until we were about 15!My buddy’s older brother was an usher there and he used to shine his flashlight on the couples in the balcony.It was funny when we were young but once we made it up there with a date it was a different story.
I, too, spent a lot of my childhood Saturday afternoons at the Arlo. My mom would give me fifty cents, which would cover the admission and popcorn, and I thought that was great! I grew up on South 27th Street near between Berkley and Clinton and used to go to the movies with my gang of McGraw School friends.
The ushers at the Arlo were REALLY serious about their jobs. I remember that Pete Dicianni used to make me laugh uncotrollably, even during dramas, and the ushers would shine their nasty flashlights at us and give us a warning. I think I only got kicked out once for making a disturbance.
I have many memories regarding the Arlo theater from when I was a little kid, ending when I worked there in my high school years.
Like MaryAnn said above me, I also can remember the line for the Beatle movie, I think it was “A Hard Days Night”, not sure, the line stretched from the Arlo box office, around the corner of 27th and Westfied and up 27th street for a couple of blocks.
I started working there when I was a freshman at Wilson in 1968, and I remember the first movie that was playing was “Bonnie & Clyde”
I had to carry those large metal cases with the reels of film in them up 3 floors to the projection booth, I hated double features.
The kids that came on the weekends gave me a run for my $1.00 an hour I made when I started. I had to wear those funny looking red vests and a tie. I also had to help clean up the mess the people would throw on the floors, the piles of garbage in the aisles after sweeping (manually) each row was staggering to say the least. It was a creepy place to be by yourself even in the daytime, cause I would hear all kinds of weird noises which turned out to be nothing. The manager in 1968 was Mr Edmund Boomer, a active US Army guy who could be tough if he had to.
I climbed all over that place even on the roof.
I worked there for a couple of years, help me get my first car.
Butchie,
You need to get the twins turned on to this site. When you are talking to them give them my email address please it is mnf4inline@aol.com. I would love to hear from them.
I have not been on in a while. Dyane, yes I remember “Tunie”. Johanna I will give the twins your info……..if I ever hear from them. It is a rarity. I hang out with my sister Pat for the most part. Once Mom died we all kinda drifted apart. I have to send this site info to all of them though. It is great fun.
I used to go there Saturday mornings and I would always stop at the fire station and look at the trucks. The firemen would always be sitting outside in their wooden chairs. If I recall, there was a large stairway to the right the lead up to the balcony area which was rarely open on Saturday mornings, probably because the few times we would sit up there, we would toss candy down below. Wasn’t the food stand to the left as you walked in and I think the capeting was a checkered color, maybe red? I remember watching The Ghost and Mrs. Chicken with Don Knotts.
Does anybody remember the dog acts? I rememder they gave a dog away to a lucky kid, One of the Vincent family on Rowe St.
The Three movies that left a real impression on me were
“Gone With The Wind” “Dr. Zivago” and “The Green Berets”
I think one time they even had the “Three Stooges” there live.
Does anybody remember that?
Bake
“The Green Beret!!!” WOW, what a movie. Saw that at the Arlo with my dad. It had John Wayne and a bunch of other guys (same actors that were in “The Hell Fighters”)…..Also a bunch of great lines……The little Vietnamese boy asking “Was my Peeta Sonn braaave?”
when they returned from a patrol minus a guy.
I think the Stooges were live at the Walt Whitman Theater on Westfield, weren’t they?
Paul, You do that little kid’s voice to a “T” lol “Ha Ha Very Funny Indy”
It may very well have been at Walt Whitman Theater, You probably have a better memory than I do, My Mom always said the first three signs of getting old are; Losing your memory. and… I forget the other three! lol
I do however recall a class trip to see the movie Patton with George C. Scott. Looking back at some of the class photos from Davis you look familiar, Did you ever play Street Hockey at the Teacher’s Parking lot on High St.?
Dave,
Yes, played quite a few games there with Ken, Gorge Gumbrell, Dave Huntsinger, Paul Burns, Paul Cohen and others (my memory is shot, and so is my memory too!! LOL).
I knew your name when I heard it, but then remembered you when I saw the class picture. I lived about a half block up the street from Jill Lewellyn, and around the corner from Linda Lingenfelter.
I think somewhere you wrote about the Bowles, I lived across the street from them, Jim Jean Elaine, Lois, Rose Delores and I think Valerie (Memory is not TOO bad I guess)
Ken did a great job with this site, he has brought a lot of people together and called back some great memories!
Paul and Dave, Moe Howard appeared at the Walt Whitman, I’m not sure if any of the other Stooges were with him.
I liked the Walt Whitman better than The Arlo… I guess I like the classic movie theater look as opposed to the art deco style. ANd the Walt Whitman would let you in to see the R rated movies even if you were 5′ 4 and looked your age of 14… as long as you could give the right birth year to make you 17!
The Green Beret, I think that was Russ’s favorite movie as a kid!!!
Paul, When Ken gets the Pix up on the N 34th St. portion see if you remember seeing the “Land Yacht” hauling eguipment and Goals to Davis?
We used run the white lines off that parking lot! lol Myself, Nick Mancini,
Nick Falconero, Al Hearn, Glenn Nasuti, Steve, Greg and Ray Hale,
Danny, Mark and Gary Krauss, Emlyn Cathers, Rich and Mark Fuscia.
In the Summer from early morning til you could barely see the ball, That’s all we seemed to do.
Ken, I believe you’re right about just one of them being there, Larry Fine might have been institutionalized then, I seem to remember a commercial on TV with him, It was pretty sad to see him in such bad condition.
I still have some old Lobby Cards from the Westerns they use to show there, The Walt Whitman was pretty classy digs! There wasn’t much sneakin in there! lol
We used to go to Saturday Matinee’s there and then go to the original panzarotti shop when it still had tables to eat in. I remember we were upset when panzarotti’s went from 35 to 40 CENTS.
Hey Guys,
There were things about East Camden that were truly magical:
When I was about 12 years old I was sitting in the Arlo watching a movie…. when about 5 rows down from me, I saw 2 familiar figures getting seated…. it was a sister and brother who had been playmates in Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia 3 years prior. It was Linda and Albert Bizarti… their mom had an “odds and ends” store a few blocks south of the Arlo. I recognized them in the darkness by their silhouette against the screen…. Linda had very bushy hair and Albert was very thin. I walked down to them and asked “Are you Linda and Albert?”…. what a blast!
Oh YA the ARLO !! MY Dad would give my brothers and I money , we walked all the way, And we pulled the first Fire alarm on Saunders and 34th St, Then ran thu the Dirt Hills. pulled the next one on 33rd and Westfield,, then watched the Fire Trucks go by,, wavin the whole time laughin.. when we got to the Arlo,, one guy paid and let the rest in the back door,, we were only 9 or 10 yrs old, LMAO greg hale
Hey there you’ll,
Is there any one out there who remembers the “Miss East Camden Contest” that was held at the Arlo once a year? As I remember, Miss East Camden would ride on back of convertible in 4th of July parade.
My feeble old 70 year brain just now remembered it. See what Ken Brown has started?
I guess by 1960 they stopped holding the contest.
My memory on that is fuzzy too. However I believe when I lived on Rosedale Ave. in the mid 50’s,a girl (Carol Donadio) from Merriel Ave. competeted in one.
We neighbors went to see her at the Arlo. Her brother Frankie was a friend of mine. He ,I hear has passed on.
Hey Greg Hale,
Sounds like you were the epitome of “Pecks Bad Boy”… you were just a little bit worse than my son Bob. He told me “years later” that he and his friends would swipe Tasty Cakes (by hiding them in their shirts) at Penn Fruit and then hide on the walking overpass across highway 130 and eat to their hearts content. He was about 9 then.
“What….”my” boy do something like that?”.
Hey Skeeter,
It would be great if we could here from Carol… maybe she has some photos from the contest. Let’s give Ken Brown a little more to keep him busy. HaHa.
Greg, IGYB! Dear Inez, I can vouch for Greg, He would never, never, ever do anything to get into trouble! “Ain’t that right fellas?” He was a model citizen, He wouldn’t even burn an ant with a magnifying glass!
“Ain’t that right fellas?” (How’em I doing so far Greg?) If you don’t belive me ask any of us, He’s a Saint! “Ain’t that right fellas?” Fellas? Guys? C’mon little help here! That’s it, You’re all off my Ground Hog’s Day Card List, This time I mean it!
Hey Skeeter,
Where in Acres (on Rosedale Ave) did you live. I lived at 324 Rosedale
(where I could see path crossing the tracks from my window). I think it was about the 5th building back. We may know each other (and don’t know that we know each other….. if that makes any sense).
From your postings it seems that you are older than my daughters generation and younger than my generation.
I lived in Acres from 1950 to spring of 1958.
Inez,
I never lived in the Acres,I lived on the other side of Westfield Ave. on Rosedale.
3177…our back alley ran between Merriel & Rosedale to 32nd st.
Go to the Rosedale Ave. thread & click on the pictures at top.
I lived at the left end of the row.3177
Richard & Bonnie Smith next to me.
Rita & Nancy Shisler,a few doors town & Fred & Leonard Kalt at the right end of the row at 3187 Rosedale.
I am now 67 years old,Rita Shisler about a year older than me. Leonard Kalt is deceased & Fred Kalt is around 70 ,he graduated from WWHS in 1957.
I attended H.H. Davis around 1955-56 & Cramer Jr. HS …1958 & 59.
I remember Mike Mangold from Wilson. Two brothers, one played football, the basketball. I believe the smaller brother who played basketball for CCHS and Wilson is (was) a fight trainer. I believe I saw him on ESPN once.
I lived right behind the Arlo Theater on 26th near Cramer from 1955-73. From my front door I could see the back of the all-brick Arlo. I literally saw hundreds of movies there. My earliest memory is seeing “The Horse Soldiers” with John Wayne there in 1959 and my greatest memory is seeing “A Hard Days Night” in 1964. Of course I couldn’t hear any of the great music on account of the girls screaming the whole time. My sister Eileen, my sister-in-law Pat Kavanaugh and my sister’s friend Judy Hale cashiered there for years so I got free passes for a long time.
The photo reminds me that my first ‘official’ employment (requiring a SS#) was next door to the Arlo, – at Lester’s 5 & 10 Cent Store, as a stock boy. (1947, maybe?)
Tom Lowe,
I knew a girl who lived on Cramer,named Janet Walker.
She lived on the other side of 27th.
Knew her from arounfd 1957 til I went in the Army in 1961.
Last saw her in 1964 or 65,I guess.
I am 67 years old now…she a couple years younger.
Did you know her.
My crowd,in our teens, hung out at the Sugar Bowl Luncheonette.
Does anybody else remember when “House on Haunted Hill” premiered at the Arlo in the early ’60s? It was a really big deal! I believe it was on a Sat. afternoon, and the line wrapped around the block, and they had people dressed in ghost & monster costumes trying to scare all the kids before the movie began. It was great!
Skeeter, No I don’t remember a Janet Walker. Since I went to CCHS and not Wilson, I probably missed out on going to school with her too. From 1967-68 I used to deliver the Courier-Post on that part of Cramer and the name doesn’t ring a bell at all. But right near there was a family with the last name of Lamb, and further up Cramer near 28th were the Morlocks, or some name similar to the race of people in “The Time Machine.” Around the corner on 27th St., next to that Baptist Church, I used to deliver a newspaper to an older couple called Conway. Why I remember these names, I don’t know. But the Lambs had a pretty girl about 4 years older than me that I used to drool over when I would collect my payment every Friday night. I loved it when she answered the door, whatever her first name was… a cute brunette.
Now, I know this particular forum is for the Arlo Theater, but since the place I’m about to mention has no forum of its own, I’ll open one here. Does anyone out there remember Mr. Berg’s “Mom & Pop” store on the west side of N. 27th St. between Cramer & High Sts.? I used to get all my candy there and sometimes picked up some bread and milk for my Ma. Mr. Berg had a hunchback and unfortunately, so advanced in age, a lot of the kids would take advantage of him and rip him off (I was not one of them, I’m proud to say). He was a bit ornery and yelled a lot but he was actually, truly, a pretty nice guy anyway. After he died about 1966, a family named Worner bought the place and it became H&L’s. That was a nice couple who owned that place.
I’ll never forget seeing that scary movie with vincent price,with my sisters,one afternoon.I never got over it lol. I was too young to be seeing it ,even in black and white. lol. I guess thats why I like comedys and musicals today.
February 23, 2008 at 4:07 am
Spent alot of fun Saturday afternoons here.
February 29, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Saw a lot of good movies at the ARLO. Also down the street was the Victoria where there were Saturday movies for kids.
March 1, 2008 at 11:32 am
The Arlo was great. I recall the Saturday double feature matinees. Cost under a dollar I think. I know my brother and I would sometimes collect soda bottles then cash them in and go to the Arlo. Mom would give us admission money, the soda bottle money was for candy. I also have memories of candy being thrown around the Arlo, small battles between kids seated at opposite ends of the theater, during dull parts of the movies. I think my brother usually started those.
March 1, 2008 at 2:07 pm
So that was YOU throwing the candy, Ken? Always wondered. Loved the art-deco theme of the place. Went in there after it had been converted to see a couple of fights. No, not between the patrons but between actual boxers. Some of the bouts were pretty lame, but a few were pretty good. I think I saw Rossman, The Jewish Bomber (from Cherry Hill, I think) there. Pretty good card for the time.
March 2, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Really going to show my age with this post.
In the mid 50’s we had the Victoria.
Sat. double feature,10 cartoons and a serial.
The admission .15 cents!!!
Then the Arlo opened up,and everone wanted to go there because it was brand new…but the parents were outraged because the admission was .20 cents…what a nerve,charging that much!..LOL
In 1956 I used to get $1.00 every Friday for my allowance,but back then that went a long way.
Hagies were called Subs in those days.
1/2 sub…………35 cents
Large Coke …….10 cents
movie……………15 cents
candy bar……….05 cents
Smokes …………25 cents
And a dime left over.
ps…Mom & Dad did not know about those smokes…lol
March 9, 2008 at 8:40 am
I remember the first time I went to the Arlo Movie Theater. My brother Michael took me and I remember he left me there. I was crying and my Mother had to come get me.
March 9, 2008 at 10:06 am
I can remember getting in for 25 cents and getting a quarter to spend on candy. They used to sell bon bons (chocoate covered ice cream) but that costed your whole quarter. My sister and I would love when it was crowded and we got to go up in the balcony. Cinderlla, Snow White were favorites. This was in the late 50s early 60s. Was a special treat to get to go. We lived on 31st Street.
March 9, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Spent many a SaturdayandSunday at the Arlo was the place to be later when we were older Friday night you would take a date there
March 10, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I remember the Arlo, would spend all day there just hanging out with friends. Sometimes would get thrown out by usher Jim Cleary. It was a place to makeout because it was dark(someone told me that)
March 10, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I remember the Arlo and the Rio at 27th and River Road. It was 10 cents for the movie, hoagies were 25 cents for a half and 50 cents for a whole one, and then they went up to 35 and 70 cents. I remember seeing the Abominable Snowman at the Rio and was scared to death for days when I tried to sleep. How stupid of me, but I was only a kid.
March 10, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Whichever one was at 27th & Federal (Arlo?) was where, when I was home for the weekend from the Marine Corps, and took my date to the movies, and because of my size, we both paid the regular price (.25 each?) or was that the adult price anyway?
March 16, 2008 at 11:35 am
Wow, what great memories of the movie theatre. I would see every Elvis movie with the kids in my neighborhood. Anyone remember the Federici’s? We would come home and reinact the whole movie. I also can remember going to see the movie “Where the boys are? with Connie Francis and stayed for the next movie time so I could see it again. Hid in the girl’s bathroom, only to have my dad walking down the aisle with the usher and his flashlite calling my name. I had no idea of time, I went to the 1:00 matinee and when we came out of the Arlo it was pitch black outside. I remember getting kicked out one time because Ronnie Federici took off my shoe and throw it up while the movie was on. LOL
March 16, 2008 at 11:56 am
I remember seeing ‘Jailhouse Rock” about 8 times.
All the would be teenaged Elvis impersonators would be dancing in the aisles when the title song came on,my friend Phil (Bachelor) was one & Jack (Catlin (sp) ) another…LOL
The name
Federici sounds familiar,but a lot of names on this site do.
I am 66 years old…any Federici’s my age.
You know what it may have been Jimmy Ferderico that I went to school with,not Federici
March 17, 2008 at 12:44 am
I was a cashier at the Arlo (1964-65). The Saturday matinees were 25 cents for kids. Every Saturday a few little rowdy kids would be kicked out by Mr. Dana (the manager). If it was within the first 10-15 min., he would refund the quarter. If it was later, too bad!
March 18, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hey Dot!: YOU OWE ME A QUARTER! And the candy I had to throw around to defend myself!
March 18, 2008 at 11:28 pm
You only lost one quarter??? You must have been smarter than the “repeat” offenders who made it a weekly ritual!
March 19, 2008 at 1:56 pm
smarter then the average bear.
March 24, 2008 at 7:43 am
We would send one guy in as a paying customer & he would sit near the fire exit.
When the lights went out he would slip down onto the floor,crawl under the heavy drapes,and make sure the were back in place…didn’t want any daylight to show thru.
He would then open the exit door (no alarms on them back then) and the rest of us would slip in,close the door quietly and sit there until our eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Then we crawled under the drapes,took a seat & watched the movie…We were just a wee bit bad in those days.
Some times we got caught by the manager,I think his name was Frank…other times he would notice us after the fact & just smile at us.
There was an usher,a big guy ,teenager with a crew cut (blonde) ,who wasn’t too kind…he liked to rough us up a little while throwing us out…think his name may have been Fred.
March 25, 2008 at 10:14 pm
So that was you Charlie sneaking in…………I remember that!
April 10, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I guess that exit door was well known because our gang did the same exact thing.It was .25 for twelve and under and we said we were 12
until we were about 15!My buddy’s older brother was an usher there and he used to shine his flashlight on the couples in the balcony.It was funny when we were young but once we made it up there with a date it was a different story.
April 21, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I remember sneaking into the Arlo just as you describe I’m sure I was with some of you guys.
April 25, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I, too, spent a lot of my childhood Saturday afternoons at the Arlo. My mom would give me fifty cents, which would cover the admission and popcorn, and I thought that was great! I grew up on South 27th Street near between Berkley and Clinton and used to go to the movies with my gang of McGraw School friends.
The ushers at the Arlo were REALLY serious about their jobs. I remember that Pete Dicianni used to make me laugh uncotrollably, even during dramas, and the ushers would shine their nasty flashlights at us and give us a warning. I think I only got kicked out once for making a disturbance.
May 4, 2008 at 12:31 am
Hey Hope, I am now even more proud to know you, a great East Camden Girl, getting kicked out of the Arlo with the rest of us!
May 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Thanks George!! I have a few more tricks up my sleeve!
August 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm
THE ARLO THEATER WAS GREAT. I THINK I HAD MY 8TH GRADE PROM THERE. BUT I COULD BE WRONG. DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER?
September 22, 2008 at 9:36 pm
DO SOOOOOOOOO REMEMBER THE ARLO THEATER. SAW THE FIRST BEATLES MOVIE THERE.
December 13, 2008 at 2:19 am
I have many memories regarding the Arlo theater from when I was a little kid, ending when I worked there in my high school years.
Like MaryAnn said above me, I also can remember the line for the Beatle movie, I think it was “A Hard Days Night”, not sure, the line stretched from the Arlo box office, around the corner of 27th and Westfied and up 27th street for a couple of blocks.
I started working there when I was a freshman at Wilson in 1968, and I remember the first movie that was playing was “Bonnie & Clyde”
I had to carry those large metal cases with the reels of film in them up 3 floors to the projection booth, I hated double features.
The kids that came on the weekends gave me a run for my $1.00 an hour I made when I started. I had to wear those funny looking red vests and a tie. I also had to help clean up the mess the people would throw on the floors, the piles of garbage in the aisles after sweeping (manually) each row was staggering to say the least. It was a creepy place to be by yourself even in the daytime, cause I would hear all kinds of weird noises which turned out to be nothing. The manager in 1968 was Mr Edmund Boomer, a active US Army guy who could be tough if he had to.
I climbed all over that place even on the roof.
I worked there for a couple of years, help me get my first car.
December 15, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I cashiered here all through high school. I thought it was a lot of money. It was back in the 60’s. Got to see every new movie and it was for free.
January 21, 2009 at 10:35 pm
beatrice kavanaugh Is that you? best friend of Tunie?
January 22, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Butchie,
You need to get the twins turned on to this site. When you are talking to them give them my email address please it is mnf4inline@aol.com. I would love to hear from them.
March 4, 2009 at 10:58 am
I have not been on in a while. Dyane, yes I remember “Tunie”. Johanna I will give the twins your info……..if I ever hear from them. It is a rarity. I hang out with my sister Pat for the most part. Once Mom died we all kinda drifted apart. I have to send this site info to all of them though. It is great fun.
March 9, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I used to go there Saturday mornings and I would always stop at the fire station and look at the trucks. The firemen would always be sitting outside in their wooden chairs. If I recall, there was a large stairway to the right the lead up to the balcony area which was rarely open on Saturday mornings, probably because the few times we would sit up there, we would toss candy down below. Wasn’t the food stand to the left as you walked in and I think the capeting was a checkered color, maybe red? I remember watching The Ghost and Mrs. Chicken with Don Knotts.
March 16, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Does anybody remember the dog acts? I rememder they gave a dog away to a lucky kid, One of the Vincent family on Rowe St.
The Three movies that left a real impression on me were
“Gone With The Wind” “Dr. Zivago” and “The Green Berets”
I think one time they even had the “Three Stooges” there live.
Does anybody remember that?
Bake
March 17, 2009 at 10:00 pm
“The Green Beret!!!” WOW, what a movie. Saw that at the Arlo with my dad. It had John Wayne and a bunch of other guys (same actors that were in “The Hell Fighters”)…..Also a bunch of great lines……The little Vietnamese boy asking “Was my Peeta Sonn braaave?”
when they returned from a patrol minus a guy.
I think the Stooges were live at the Walt Whitman Theater on Westfield, weren’t they?
March 18, 2009 at 2:10 am
Paul, You do that little kid’s voice to a “T” lol “Ha Ha Very Funny Indy”
It may very well have been at Walt Whitman Theater, You probably have a better memory than I do, My Mom always said the first three signs of getting old are; Losing your memory. and… I forget the other three! lol
I do however recall a class trip to see the movie Patton with George C. Scott. Looking back at some of the class photos from Davis you look familiar, Did you ever play Street Hockey at the Teacher’s Parking lot on High St.?
March 18, 2009 at 9:14 am
Dave,
Yes, played quite a few games there with Ken, Gorge Gumbrell, Dave Huntsinger, Paul Burns, Paul Cohen and others (my memory is shot, and so is my memory too!! LOL).
I knew your name when I heard it, but then remembered you when I saw the class picture. I lived about a half block up the street from Jill Lewellyn, and around the corner from Linda Lingenfelter.
I think somewhere you wrote about the Bowles, I lived across the street from them, Jim Jean Elaine, Lois, Rose Delores and I think Valerie (Memory is not TOO bad I guess)
Ken did a great job with this site, he has brought a lot of people together and called back some great memories!
March 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Paul and Dave, Moe Howard appeared at the Walt Whitman, I’m not sure if any of the other Stooges were with him.
I liked the Walt Whitman better than The Arlo… I guess I like the classic movie theater look as opposed to the art deco style. ANd the Walt Whitman would let you in to see the R rated movies even if you were 5′ 4 and looked your age of 14… as long as you could give the right birth year to make you 17!
The Green Beret, I think that was Russ’s favorite movie as a kid!!!
March 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Paul, When Ken gets the Pix up on the N 34th St. portion see if you remember seeing the “Land Yacht” hauling eguipment and Goals to Davis?
We used run the white lines off that parking lot! lol Myself, Nick Mancini,
Nick Falconero, Al Hearn, Glenn Nasuti, Steve, Greg and Ray Hale,
Danny, Mark and Gary Krauss, Emlyn Cathers, Rich and Mark Fuscia.
In the Summer from early morning til you could barely see the ball, That’s all we seemed to do.
Ken, I believe you’re right about just one of them being there, Larry Fine might have been institutionalized then, I seem to remember a commercial on TV with him, It was pretty sad to see him in such bad condition.
I still have some old Lobby Cards from the Westerns they use to show there, The Walt Whitman was pretty classy digs! There wasn’t much sneakin in there! lol
April 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm
We used to go to Saturday Matinee’s there and then go to the original panzarotti shop when it still had tables to eat in. I remember we were upset when panzarotti’s went from 35 to 40 CENTS.
April 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Bernard, I remember when they were 35 cents, We used to get them from the truck at Wilson and sit on the monkey bars to eat them at lunch.
April 28, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Hey Guys,
There were things about East Camden that were truly magical:
When I was about 12 years old I was sitting in the Arlo watching a movie…. when about 5 rows down from me, I saw 2 familiar figures getting seated…. it was a sister and brother who had been playmates in Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia 3 years prior. It was Linda and Albert Bizarti… their mom had an “odds and ends” store a few blocks south of the Arlo. I recognized them in the darkness by their silhouette against the screen…. Linda had very bushy hair and Albert was very thin. I walked down to them and asked “Are you Linda and Albert?”…. what a blast!
May 1, 2009 at 10:26 am
Oh YA the ARLO !! MY Dad would give my brothers and I money , we walked all the way, And we pulled the first Fire alarm on Saunders and 34th St, Then ran thu the Dirt Hills. pulled the next one on 33rd and Westfield,, then watched the Fire Trucks go by,, wavin the whole time laughin.. when we got to the Arlo,, one guy paid and let the rest in the back door,, we were only 9 or 10 yrs old, LMAO
greg hale
May 18, 2009 at 2:09 am
Hey there you’ll,
Is there any one out there who remembers the “Miss East Camden Contest” that was held at the Arlo once a year? As I remember, Miss East Camden would ride on back of convertible in 4th of July parade.
My feeble old 70 year brain just now remembered it. See what Ken Brown has started?
I guess by 1960 they stopped holding the contest.
May 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm
My memory on that is fuzzy too. However I believe when I lived on Rosedale Ave. in the mid 50’s,a girl (Carol Donadio) from Merriel Ave. competeted in one.
We neighbors went to see her at the Arlo. Her brother Frankie was a friend of mine. He ,I hear has passed on.
I am in contact with Carol though.
I think she won or was one of the runner ups.
I am 67,she a couple years older.
May 18, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Hey Greg Hale,
Sounds like you were the epitome of “Pecks Bad Boy”… you were just a little bit worse than my son Bob. He told me “years later” that he and his friends would swipe Tasty Cakes (by hiding them in their shirts) at Penn Fruit and then hide on the walking overpass across highway 130 and eat to their hearts content. He was about 9 then.
“What….”my” boy do something like that?”.
May 18, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Hey Skeeter,
It would be great if we could here from Carol… maybe she has some photos from the contest. Let’s give Ken Brown a little more to keep him busy. HaHa.
May 18, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Greg, IGYB! Dear Inez, I can vouch for Greg, He would never, never, ever do anything to get into trouble! “Ain’t that right fellas?” He was a model citizen, He wouldn’t even burn an ant with a magnifying glass!
“Ain’t that right fellas?” (How’em I doing so far Greg?) If you don’t belive me ask any of us, He’s a Saint! “Ain’t that right fellas?” Fellas? Guys? C’mon little help here! That’s it, You’re all off my Ground Hog’s Day Card List, This time I mean it!
May 25, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hey Skeeter,
Where in Acres (on Rosedale Ave) did you live. I lived at 324 Rosedale
(where I could see path crossing the tracks from my window). I think it was about the 5th building back. We may know each other (and don’t know that we know each other….. if that makes any sense).
From your postings it seems that you are older than my daughters generation and younger than my generation.
I lived in Acres from 1950 to spring of 1958.
May 26, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Inez,
I never lived in the Acres,I lived on the other side of Westfield Ave. on Rosedale.
3177…our back alley ran between Merriel & Rosedale to 32nd st.
Go to the Rosedale Ave. thread & click on the pictures at top.
I lived at the left end of the row.3177
Richard & Bonnie Smith next to me.
Rita & Nancy Shisler,a few doors town & Fred & Leonard Kalt at the right end of the row at 3187 Rosedale.
I am now 67 years old,Rita Shisler about a year older than me. Leonard Kalt is deceased & Fred Kalt is around 70 ,he graduated from WWHS in 1957.
I attended H.H. Davis around 1955-56 & Cramer Jr. HS …1958 & 59.
Never went to WWHS.
May 29, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Dave Baker – I dont think you guys were bad, just ornery, of course I was not with you guys 24/7.
about the ant thing – I did see some of you giving some crabs in the summer a one way ride to heaven on a firecracker or two.
I cant believe greg would do those things, maybe Steve put him up to it. (only kidding Steve)
June 10, 2009 at 10:18 am
I remember Mike Mangold from Wilson. Two brothers, one played football, the basketball. I believe the smaller brother who played basketball for CCHS and Wilson is (was) a fight trainer. I believe I saw him on ESPN once.
Ron Bennett
St Joe’s ‘69
June 10, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I lived right behind the Arlo Theater on 26th near Cramer from 1955-73. From my front door I could see the back of the all-brick Arlo. I literally saw hundreds of movies there. My earliest memory is seeing “The Horse Soldiers” with John Wayne there in 1959 and my greatest memory is seeing “A Hard Days Night” in 1964. Of course I couldn’t hear any of the great music on account of the girls screaming the whole time. My sister Eileen, my sister-in-law Pat Kavanaugh and my sister’s friend Judy Hale cashiered there for years so I got free passes for a long time.
June 10, 2009 at 2:50 pm
The photo reminds me that my first ‘official’ employment (requiring a SS#) was next door to the Arlo, – at Lester’s 5 & 10 Cent Store, as a stock boy. (1947, maybe?)
June 11, 2009 at 8:59 am
Tom Lowe,
I knew a girl who lived on Cramer,named Janet Walker.
She lived on the other side of 27th.
Knew her from arounfd 1957 til I went in the Army in 1961.
Last saw her in 1964 or 65,I guess.
I am 67 years old now…she a couple years younger.
Did you know her.
My crowd,in our teens, hung out at the Sugar Bowl Luncheonette.
June 11, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Does anybody else remember when “House on Haunted Hill” premiered at the Arlo in the early ’60s? It was a really big deal! I believe it was on a Sat. afternoon, and the line wrapped around the block, and they had people dressed in ghost & monster costumes trying to scare all the kids before the movie began. It was great!
June 11, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Skeeter, No I don’t remember a Janet Walker. Since I went to CCHS and not Wilson, I probably missed out on going to school with her too. From 1967-68 I used to deliver the Courier-Post on that part of Cramer and the name doesn’t ring a bell at all. But right near there was a family with the last name of Lamb, and further up Cramer near 28th were the Morlocks, or some name similar to the race of people in “The Time Machine.” Around the corner on 27th St., next to that Baptist Church, I used to deliver a newspaper to an older couple called Conway. Why I remember these names, I don’t know. But the Lambs had a pretty girl about 4 years older than me that I used to drool over when I would collect my payment every Friday night. I loved it when she answered the door, whatever her first name was… a cute brunette.
June 11, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Now, I know this particular forum is for the Arlo Theater, but since the place I’m about to mention has no forum of its own, I’ll open one here. Does anyone out there remember Mr. Berg’s “Mom & Pop” store on the west side of N. 27th St. between Cramer & High Sts.? I used to get all my candy there and sometimes picked up some bread and milk for my Ma. Mr. Berg had a hunchback and unfortunately, so advanced in age, a lot of the kids would take advantage of him and rip him off (I was not one of them, I’m proud to say). He was a bit ornery and yelled a lot but he was actually, truly, a pretty nice guy anyway. After he died about 1966, a family named Worner bought the place and it became H&L’s. That was a nice couple who owned that place.
July 22, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I’ll never forget seeing that scary movie with vincent price,with my sisters,one afternoon.I never got over it lol. I was too young to be seeing it ,even in black and white. lol. I guess thats why I like comedys and musicals today.