Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>Goofing off while the movie’s were playing….</p>
  • <p>“The Jolson Story” had its Memphis premiere at the Malco in 1946. Check out the vintage advertising truck/bus parked in front of the theatre. It would appear all around Memphis, wherever there would likely be crowds.</p> <ul> <li>Memphis and Shelby County Room of the Memphis Public Library, used with permission.</li> </ul>
  • <p>This photo was posted on a Sheridan memories group. Finally a shot of the Orpheum when it was open.</p>
  • <p>New entrance, added when cinemas #7 & 8 were built in early 1986. Photo: July 1986</p>
  • <p>Sign, October 1986</p>
  • <p>Souvenir from my employment at the Drive-In in 1973 as a projectionist</p>
  • <p>1984 photo credit John Falk.</p>
  • <p>May 25th, 1947</p>
  • <p>Midwest Theater 318 W. Chickasha Avenue, Chickasha…1939.</p>
  • <p>1987 photo.</p>
  • <p>A photo of the marquee just off the street, from late October 1986.</p>
  • <p>premiere screening of E.T.</p>
  • <p>AI enhanced image</p>
  • <p>AI enhanced image at nite</p>
  • <p>Apollo Astronaut Capt. Thomas Stafford waves at his friends during Southwestern State College homecoming parade at which he was honored Saturday. (AI enhanced)</p>
  • <p>1986</p>
  • <p>Taken by me, summer 2006</p>
  • <p>The Theatre screening a movie</p>
  • <p>Photo of the Plaza Theater on the last night it was open as a movie Theater.</p>
  • <p>PHOTOS SHOWS 36 BUT THIS WAS DONE FOR THE FILMING OF THE 1984 BACHELOR PARTY, WITH TOM HAWKS, I WAS MANN THEATERS C.O.O. I WAS THERE AT OPENING</p>
  • <p>June 18, 1980 photo credit Richard A. Rygh, originally published in Capital Times. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society. “View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire Strikes Back sponsored in part by WMAD-FM. A radio station van is on the left.”</p> <p>https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM109027</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture Exhibitor, 1965</p>
  • <p>1940s photo via Randall Friedrich‎.</p>