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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

Former AMC Orleans 8

The Girl in the Orleans Projection Booth

The Orleans cinema exterior in 2005, with its tall sign and repeated curved roofline.

History & local legend

The former AMC Orleans 8 in Northeast Philadelphia began as a single-screen theater in 1963, opening with Days of Wine and Roses. Its large auditorium was divided over time, and additional screens opened behind a neighboring supermarket before the complex closed in 2007.

The theater's ghost story concerns a little girl heard in a projection booth after the last screening. People described giggling followed by an invitation to play.

Sources

  1. StrangeUSA, Orleans 8 Movie Theater, projection-booth story and former patron’s 2011 recollection
  2. Cinema Treasures, theater history, screenings, address and map
  3. Cinema Treasures, neighbors on demolition of auditoriums 1–4 and the mall
  4. Eddie J, exterior of AMC Orleans in 2005
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Eddie J via Cinema Treasures, 2005 · License