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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

A nickelodeon called the Crystal Palace when it opened in 1908, the building at 334 South Street in Philadelphia has reinvented itself many times across more than a century. Through its early decades it operated as a movie house under names including the Palace and the New Palace, screening films to South Street audiences while the surrounding neighbourhood changed around it. Its most influential chapter came in the 1960s, when two local women, Celia Silverman and Jean Goldman, established a no...