Photos favorited by cjwin

  • <p>1948 postcard.</p>
  • <p>Photo and copy credit Dan Young.</p> <p>“NOYO Theater was torched by locals when Deep Throat was playing.”</p>
  • <p>April 6, 2021. Caught a glimpse of the lobby through the glass doors.</p>
  • <p>Relaunched April 23, 1959, the “all new” United Artists launched with this auditorium now with 70mm projection.</p>
  • <p>WORLD PREMIER OF DIRTY HARRY ON DECEMBER 22,1971 WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCE OF CLINT EASTWOOD IN PERSON.</p>
  • <p>Detail of one of three crowns, which appear as part of the design of the stained glass window of Grauman’s Imperial Theatre.</p>
  • <p>Detail of one of the restored panels of Grauman’s Imperial Theatre.</p>
  • <p>October, 2017. Work progresses at a Bay Area stained glass studio on restoration of the 1912 facade window of Grauman’s Imperial Theatre. The window will be placed on permanent display in the lobby of the condominium tower which is nearing completion on the site of the theatre.</p>
  • <p>Grand opening as Grauman’s Imperial in 1912</p>
  • <p>1959</p>
  • <p>The lobby of the United Artists in 1955 as a group of butchers come to see “Marty”</p>
  • <p>Here are some photos I took this week of the demolition of this theatre</p>
  • <p>Another photos form the tear down.</p>
  • <p>East wall of the outer lobby. The arched plaster panel, with its stenciling, was determined to be the result of an early redecoration of the lobby and entrance vestibule–perhaps during the early 1920s–in which new textured surfaces were applied to walls, and in the case of the vestibule, the ceiling.</p>
  • <p>This is a general view of the painted-over stained glass arched window which was revealed when the later dropped ceiling in the ticket lobby of the Market Street Cinema was removed during demolition. The window reads (backwards from inside) “GRAUMAN’S IMPERIAL THEATRE.” Later it was covered on the exterior with a wall of sheet metal, and then that was in turn covered in stucco. This high-ceilinged lobby was completely hidden from view during the 1930 Art Deco remodeling, when the theatre became the United Artists.</p>
  • <p>Going fast the former United Artists Theatre on Market ST in SF</p>
  • <p>A sad goodbye</p>
  • <p>This is a sketch I did on-site, when the 60s facade of the Parkside, and the 30s facade underneath it, had been removed, exposing the original 1928 facade. This sketch can be compared to the photo posted on this photo page of the Parkside when it opened, but what I was able to show was that the original paint was still intact, having been covered over by the second facade when the theatre was only a decade old. The winged lions were simply painted on, and were still there. Unfortunately, the school which owns the building cared for the archaeological discovery not in the least, and destroyed all of it by cutting numerous windows in the facade, and painting what little remained a uniform grey.</p>