Photos favorited by Willburg145

  • <p>1940 photo courtesy of Al Ponte’s Time Machine - New York Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>It’s December 26, 1940 and time for the American Theatre projection booth to fire up for the grand opening.</p>
  • <p>Photograph courtesy John Drobnicki. Taken from the 1975-1976 York College Yearbook.</p>
  • <p>The box office at the right corner and awesome mural above the entrance highlight the Rialto’s foyer here at its grand opening.</p>
  • <p>Street ballyhoo in summer of 1939</p>
  • <p>World premiere of Louis Jordan’s “Beware” in Harlem in 1946. Although Astor Pictures had multiple “world premieres” for this film, this appears to be the actual first world premiere.</p>
  • <p>It’s the snack bar of the RKO Hamilton Theatre in 1956.</p>
  • <p>December 25, 1961</p>
  • <p>Special Easter Holiday Presentation (April, 1938)</p>
  • <p>Still as Windsor with stage revue (1939)</p>
  • <p>Photos taken at opening in July, 1963</p>
  • <p>The Jewel Theater circa 1940, from the NYC Tax Photo restoration project, over half a million photos digitized and released for the first time in Nov. 2018.</p>
  • <p>Alba Theatre 1940s tax photo</p>
  • <p>Original auditorium as Karlton Theatre (1921)</p>
  • <p>The Bromley Theatre at opening on April 20, 1935 in Philadelphia</p>
  • <p>The lobby of the Bromley Theatre at opening on April 20, 1935 in Philadelphia</p>
  • <p>Lobby, September 2014</p>
  • <p>Century Theatre<br>850 Monroe Street,<br>Brooklyn, NY 11221</p>