Casino Theatre (Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania)

The Casino Theatre Entertainment Center was a two-screen movie house and ice cream shop in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.

This year-round family-owned and operated business, founded in 1975, was built on the site of the Casino dance hall and night club, which was itself established in 1922.

Several decades later the building was transformed into a movie house, with seats placed on the flat dance floor and the screen on the stage.

The three families formed a business entity called LIGEND, Inc., from the letters of their last names, and incorporated it with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 12, 1975.

Over the years, the Litzes added a kitchen, miniature golf course and a game room targeted at pre-teens and younger, with prize redemptions.

Items featuring Betty Boop, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, I Love Lucy, and other icons of the 1950s.

Initial reports indicated that Tran intended to keep on the staff with the only noted changes in local papers being the possible addition of Vietnamese food to the menu.

Confirming the end of the nearly 47 year old business and seeming to contradict earlier statements by the old owners and operators at the time of the sale.