Street parade for the opening of “Hollow Triumph” at the Astor theatre in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Lester Stallman is the manager of the theatre.
Were movie premiere parades common back in the mid century?
It was short I worked there. It was the only building Joe Gentile owned out right. He changed the name…
Red Skelton visited Reading in April, 1978, in support of the Astor theatre’s preservation. I ran into him in front of Whitner’s while walking in Penn Square one cold morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJy57CazVVU