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Campus Theatre
Campus Theatre is an entertainment venue in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Opened in 1941, and located on Market Street, it is one of the few single-screen Art Deco movie houses in the country still in operation, and forms part of Lewisburg Historic District. It is now co-owned by Campus Theatre Ltd. and Bucknell University. The theater, designed by David Supowitz, was founded by the Steifel brothers (Oscar, Harold, Moritz (Morris) and Barney), Russian immigrants who ran an empire across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Its opening night was January 17, 1941, when it showed the Jack Benny and Fred Allen musical comedy ''Love Thy Neighbor''. Moriss's son, Harold, took over the management of the theater in 1953, when his uncle, Barney, retired. In 2001, Bucknell University film and media studies professor Eric Faden leased the theater from Jacquie Steifel, Harold's widow, and founded Campus Theatre Ltd. as a nonprofit organization A nonprofit organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Street (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania)
Market Street is a downtown street in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It runs for around , from Main Street, at the Union County, Pennsylvania, Union County/Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County line, in the east to North Fairground Road in the west. It is part of Pennsylvania Route 45. West of its intersection with Derr Drive (U.S. Route 15), it is named West Market Street. From the Susquehanna River inland, Market Street's cross streets are numbered 2 through 8, with Front Street replacing what was originally 1st Street. These cross streets are named "North" or "South" depending on their location relative to Main Street. Lewisburg's street layout was designed by Ludwig Derr in 1785, and is believed to have been inspired by that of Philadelphia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
