Photos favorited by Bill Huelbig

  • <p>April 16,1971</p>
  • <p>“The New York Times, June 12, 1960”</p>
  • <p>In better days. Buy me that town!</p>
  • <p>Grauman’s Chinese Theater’s Engagemement for “Star Wars”</p>
  • <p>Broadway looking north at 50th Street 1962, Loew’s Capitol, then called Loew’s Cinerama.</p>
  • <p>Stairway upstairs to foyer and main lobby/lounge</p>
  • <p>Photo: Cliff Carson</p>
  • <p>“Columbus Dispatch” March 24, 1957</p>
  • <p>On August 12, 1988, approximately 500 protesters demonstrated outside the Ziegfeld where Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” was bowing. All shows were sold out. Photo by David Morgan (www.wideanglecloseup.com).</p>
  • <p>My friend Laura Muhleisen sent me this photo from her room on the 22nd floor of the New York Hilton.</p>
  • <p>No mention of the Phipps Penthouse theatre in Atlanta on Cinema Treasures. It was a single screen theatre that was upstairs above the Phipps Theatre which was downstairs. THE EXORCIST premiered there and ran for months.</p>
  • <p>Taken from memory on the opening..</p>
  • <p>View of Screen</p>
  • <p>From December 21st, 1962</p>
  • <p>Back and front of the small program handed out at the world premiere or during the roadshow engagement of “Ben-Hur”. (The inside of the program contains cast and credits.) Also see the photo taken outside at the world premiere showing the Cobbs Corner Restaurant referred to here.</p>
  • <p>Note the Cobbs Corner Restaurant, which operated the “Ben-Hur Bar and Cocktail Lounge” referenced on my other upload, the small program handed out during that roadshow engagement.</p>