{"id":7097,"date":"2012-03-14T06:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:52:03","slug":"chestnut-street-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/chestnut-street-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut Street Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Opera House from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/p>\n

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The Chestnut Street Opera House opened in 1877. This is a photo taken of the back entrance of the theater.<\/p>\n

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This photo was taken in 1940, shortly before the demolition of the theater. The sign you see in front is an advertisement for the wrecking company.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Opera House from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,4,104],"tags":[1422,1420,1421],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-demolished-buildings","tag-theaters","tag-vaudeville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1Qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37827,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/12\/19th-chestnut-30-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":7097,"position":0},"title":"19th & Chestnut 30 Years Ago","author":"Joe","date":"June 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"30 Years ago, I started working at a place at 20th and Chestnut and about a block east of that, a portion of the movie Philadelphia was being shot. 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