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An era irrevocably
ended on March 4, 1957, the Times Leader reported, when the owners of the shuttered Orpheum and Penn theaters, both on Wilkes-Barre’s South Main Street, obtained demolition permits. Each theater followed a policy of changing its bill several times a week, and the Penn had long offered stage acts to supplement its movies. They were the last two movie houses on what had been a vibrant street of theaters.