Here is a 1989 Life photo that shows Disney’s ersatz Hollywood Boulevard in Florida. You can see the Chinese at the end of the street. Bleh. http://tinyurl.com/58qwum
Here is part of a 7/21/35 article from the NYT. I don’t think you can say thugs in a headline anymore. Not PC.
THUGS GET PAYROLL IN THEATRE HOLD-UP; 3 Flee With $400 in Astoria After Binding Manager and Boy and Cutting Wires.
Bandits held up Joseph Yovin of 32-50 Seventy-ninth Street, Jackson Heights, manager of the Crescent Theatre at 27-18 Astoria Boulevard, Astoria, yesterday morning and escaped with a $400 payroll after tying Yovin and a 14-year-old boy in the office of the theatre.
Here’s the problem with the Chicago archive-I think it says $400 for 1500 articles. What if you pull up an article and you don’t like it? I guess it counts against your total. I prefer something open-ended. I wish there was some other way to access the Tribune database.
Here is an excerpt from an 8/10/23 article in the NYT:
1 DEAD, 1 WOUNDED IN THEATRE HOLD-UP; Unidentified Man Slain, Manager of Broadway Film House Shot
J. Alton Bradbury, 45 years old, proprietor of the Olympia Theatre on Broadway, between 106th and 107th Streets, was wounded seriously and an unidentified man was shot to death at 10:15 o'clock last night when two hold-up men attempted a raid upon Bradbury’s office in the theatre building, where he had counted the night’s receipts.
Here is a 1944 photo from Life Magazine. Unfortunately the focus was on the blind street musician and not the theater in the background. http://tinyurl.com/6j942j
Here is a November 1949 photo from Life Magazine. The photo was taken during a funeral procession for Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. http://tinyurl.com/5kqn98
Here is an October 1957 photo from Life Magazine. The Criterion marquee is visible in the background. Apologies if this photo has already been posted. http://tinyurl.com/6c3le3
Here’s a puzzling photo from Life Magazine, dated July 1941. I know George Hamid ran the Million Dollar pier, but I don’t recall that pier ever having a theater. The Steel Pier had two theaters, but this doesn’t look like any part of the Steel Pier. The other choice is a separate theater called Hamid’s, of which I don’t have any knowledge. http://tinyurl.com/6lrvsa
Here is part of an article in the LA Times dated 5/26/1917:
PORTLAND (Or) May 25-The trial of D.J. Myrick, manager of the Columbia Theater, charged with felonious assault upon Adele Eils, his pretty girl cashier, came to a dramatic end here today when Myrick’s attorney announced that his client would plead guilty and Myrick confirmed the plea, sobbing aloud as the girl, in a state of hysteria, was led from the courtroom. The attack was made last January in Myrick’s office at midnight.
Here is part of an LA Times article dated 10/31/33:
Kidnapped by two bandits and forced to drive around for more than four hours with a gun poked in his side, George F. Rehers, manager of the Balboa Theater at 8713 S. Vermont, was released late yesterday after he had been relieved of two bank pouches containing $500 cash and more than $300 in checks, according to police reports.
Rehers told police he had left the theater office about 11:30 a.m. en route to a neighborhood bank and was just entering his automobile when the two men, one of whom carried an automatic pistol, appeared on the opposite side of the car.
Here is an excerpt from a NYT article dated 8/28/59:
The 70-year-old manager of Loew’s Lexington Theatre at 571 Lexington Avenue was pistol-whipped with a revolver and robbed of $1850 last night, police reported today.
Here is May 1949 photo from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/5as826
Not the Los Angeles library, that I know of. Maybe I can apply for a Chicago library card with a fake address.
Here is a 1989 Life photo that shows Disney’s ersatz Hollywood Boulevard in Florida. You can see the Chinese at the end of the street. Bleh.
http://tinyurl.com/58qwum
Here is part of a 7/21/35 article from the NYT. I don’t think you can say thugs in a headline anymore. Not PC.
THUGS GET PAYROLL IN THEATRE HOLD-UP; 3 Flee With $400 in Astoria After Binding Manager and Boy and Cutting Wires.
Bandits held up Joseph Yovin of 32-50 Seventy-ninth Street, Jackson Heights, manager of the Crescent Theatre at 27-18 Astoria Boulevard, Astoria, yesterday morning and escaped with a $400 payroll after tying Yovin and a 14-year-old boy in the office of the theatre.
Here’s the problem with the Chicago archive-I think it says $400 for 1500 articles. What if you pull up an article and you don’t like it? I guess it counts against your total. I prefer something open-ended. I wish there was some other way to access the Tribune database.
Here is an excerpt from an 8/10/23 article in the NYT:
1 DEAD, 1 WOUNDED IN THEATRE HOLD-UP; Unidentified Man Slain, Manager of Broadway Film House Shot
J. Alton Bradbury, 45 years old, proprietor of the Olympia Theatre on Broadway, between 106th and 107th Streets, was wounded seriously and an unidentified man was shot to death at 10:15 o'clock last night when two hold-up men attempted a raid upon Bradbury’s office in the theatre building, where he had counted the night’s receipts.
Here is an excerpt from a Chicago Daily Tribune article dated ¼/22:
ARREST THEATER MAN:DOUBT TALE OF $2000 THEFT
C. L. Boyd, treasurer of the Columbia theater, 11 North Clark Street, who told the police yesterday morning that two burglars held him up…
(was lying, apparently, but I don’t have the rest of the article)
The Warner is on the left in this October 1968 photo from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/55yfp8
I think Earl Warren was running for governor at that time.
Here is another 1942 photo from Life showing the Esquire and the neighboring Telenews theaters:
http://tinyurl.com/5ab9j5
I see. So it was the Embassy showing “Quartet”. Thanks.
OK, thanks.
Here is a 1944 photo from Life Magazine. Unfortunately the focus was on the blind street musician and not the theater in the background.
http://tinyurl.com/6j942j
Sorry about that, Warren. I tried to look at all the previous photos, but this is a pretty extensive list.
On the bottom it says “Back to image details”. You can click on that if you want more information about the photo.
Does anyone know what the Quartet Theater on the right is listed under? I didn’t see it as an AKA. Is it possible that it was a live theater? Thanks.
Here is a November 1949 photo from Life Magazine. The photo was taken during a funeral procession for Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
http://tinyurl.com/5kqn98
Here is an October 1957 photo from Life Magazine. The Criterion marquee is visible in the background. Apologies if this photo has already been posted.
http://tinyurl.com/6c3le3
Here is another Life photo, this time from 1946:
http://tinyurl.com/5r4d46
I heard that Jerry Lewis was thinking about running in 2012. No announcement yet, though.
Here’s a puzzling photo from Life Magazine, dated July 1941. I know George Hamid ran the Million Dollar pier, but I don’t recall that pier ever having a theater. The Steel Pier had two theaters, but this doesn’t look like any part of the Steel Pier. The other choice is a separate theater called Hamid’s, of which I don’t have any knowledge.
http://tinyurl.com/6lrvsa
Take care, Roger.
Here is part of an article in the LA Times dated 5/26/1917:
PORTLAND (Or) May 25-The trial of D.J. Myrick, manager of the Columbia Theater, charged with felonious assault upon Adele Eils, his pretty girl cashier, came to a dramatic end here today when Myrick’s attorney announced that his client would plead guilty and Myrick confirmed the plea, sobbing aloud as the girl, in a state of hysteria, was led from the courtroom. The attack was made last January in Myrick’s office at midnight.
Here is part of an LA Times article dated 10/31/33:
Kidnapped by two bandits and forced to drive around for more than four hours with a gun poked in his side, George F. Rehers, manager of the Balboa Theater at 8713 S. Vermont, was released late yesterday after he had been relieved of two bank pouches containing $500 cash and more than $300 in checks, according to police reports.
Rehers told police he had left the theater office about 11:30 a.m. en route to a neighborhood bank and was just entering his automobile when the two men, one of whom carried an automatic pistol, appeared on the opposite side of the car.
Here is an excerpt from a NYT article dated 8/28/59:
The 70-year-old manager of Loew’s Lexington Theatre at 571 Lexington Avenue was pistol-whipped with a revolver and robbed of $1850 last night, police reported today.