Facebook post by Roger Gaulin: “You could literally spend a whole day inside the Laurier. The movies would run non-stop except for a break now and then to collect donations for a charity or to await the drawing of special promotional items such as the dish sets, etc. For under a dime you would watch two features, a cartoon show, a newsreel report and a "Chapter” (that’s what Social Coin natives called the weekly serial shows) Place to be if it was raining and storming outside."
Only interior photo of the Laurier I have ever seen. Sad it had to be this one. Looks like it’s near the stage/screen area. The gentleman might have been the owner.
Facebook post by Roger Gaulin: “You could literally spend a whole day inside the Laurier. The movies would run non-stop except for a break now and then to collect donations for a charity or to await the drawing of special promotional items such as the dish sets, etc. For under a dime you would watch two features, a cartoon show, a newsreel report and a "Chapter” (that’s what Social Coin natives called the weekly serial shows) Place to be if it was raining and storming outside."
Only interior photo of the Laurier I have ever seen. Sad it had to be this one. Looks like it’s near the stage/screen area. The gentleman might have been the owner.
The Columbus Theatre has just closed, apparently for good, this weekend. Don’t know what will happen to it.
Probably shown circa 1943.
Saw the Italian movie “Flashback” here in the summer of 1969.
“Assunta Spina” & “Preludio d'amore.”
“Molti sogni per le strade” with Anna Magnani.
In 1938.
Newsreel Theatre down one theatre entrance.
You can also see the side of the Strand Theatre, center left.
Building with pointed roof.
This is the 1933 version, shown in New York in 1934. The cast matches that in the NYT review. So this showing was probably 1934/1935.
1932, actually.
Lots of community backlash against this rubble “eyesore” at this time.
I once saw this revived at the New York Film Festival.
MONSIEUR VINCENT was playing at the Avon that week.
Gala event for the HBO special.
The dark-colored center building.
There is more to that article if you are interested in finding it in that issue.
Open convertibles.
References to the New Central Theatre appeared in January 1921.
Gorgeous!
I have Almost Angels on video. It’s a nice film about the Vienna Boys Choir.
“Condemned” by the Catholic Legion of Decency.
Released November 1976.