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."
Roberto Benigni, right of center.
Early days of sound movies.
My phot, circa 1967.
Where I saw most of my movies as a kid between 1948 and 1955. A 12-minute walk from my house.
Saw this here!
Re-opening?– https://turnto10.com/news/local/attleboro-community-aims-to-bring-back-historic-union-theatre-southern-new-england-rhode-island-massachusetts-october-4-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawFt3_hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYaYSyImqdv7557d8AP8aq5JopKrqvK-1SeF6bbHijUG5nFRuOxvvNxolA_aem_-2kMmOd7c4Mu2xu2R_kCqA
…1938
Saw this here with knock-out sound!
In Windhoek, Namibia.
Actually, in the period AFTER that hurricane.
Unable to read the marquee.
Postcard view, 1955 circa.
Amazing!
Circa 1926.
Circa 1952. “Flesh and Fury.”
From 1968.
Aha! I see Dunn’s, a super deli I ate at often.
In the 1960s.
Large white building was the former Olympia. Here we have it during the 1978 blizzard.
Now named Teatro Variedades Ernesto Alban.
Since modified, and not for the better.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/closed-15-years-fairhavens-old-080421936.html
A 1976 film on marquee.
The manager owner was Maurice Safner.The theater never reopened after massive flood damage.It was torn down in 1958.
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."