Photos favorited by irvl

  • <p>1942 photo credit Charles Steinheimer LIFE Picture Collections.</p>
  • <p>June 9, 1950, opening day of the Varsity. Davis Enterprise newspaper ad.</p>
  • <p><A HREF="http://afterthefinalcurtain.net/">After the Final Curtain</A><br></p>
  • <p>Studebaker Theater House</p>
  • <p>Chicago Opera Theater pre-performance talk in the Studebaker Theater.</p>
  • <p>I took this photo while on a site visit in August 2016. The building is in rough shape.</p>
  • <p>The Vogue was in Orlando’s Colonialtown neighborhood at the corner of Colonial and Mills. It opened in 1940 and closed in the early 1970s. One its site presently is a CVS drugstore.</p>
  • <p>A play inside</p>
  • <p>A view from the street</p>
  • <p>State Theatre, Hammond IN in 1926: Art by the architect, Walter W. Ahlschlager (who also designed the Roxy in New York and the Davis & Logan in Chicago)</p>
  • <p>Proscenium, curtain, and box seats.</p>
  • <p>The Gem Theatre launched December 1, 1934 with Barbara Stanwyck in “Gambling Lady” and Lane Chandler in “Gun for Hire.”</p>
  • <p>Scan of a postcard showing the interior of the Missouri Theatre.</p>
  • <p>Article from the WINTER GARDEN TIMES announcing the opening of the Gem Theatre on September 27, 1941.</p>
  • <p>This door is at the rear of the theatre in the addition constructed for the 2008 re-opening.</p>
  • <p>Garden Theatre down the street. 1950’s photo courtesy of the Old Images of Orlando & Central Florida Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Garden Theatre, Winter Garden, Florida, upon its grand reopening on February 29, 2008.</p>