Photos favorited by cjwin

  • <p>Photo & copy credit William David French Jr.</p> <p>A great photo of the Rafael Theatre after the demolition of the offices. I lived across the street and took this photo (please don’t post it anywhere else).</p> <p>When the demolition took place on the Rafael it was decided to completely ignore it’s pre-Rafael era. It was built as the Orpheus. Sadly original plasterwork was destroyed along with painted surfaces and wallpaper.</p>
  • <p>1974 photo credit Mark Chambers.</p>
  • <p>One of a series of identical fixtures which lined the walls of the Midtown’s auditorium, downstairs. When we were in the theater doing salvage prior to its Spring, 1998 gutting, we found that only three of the fixtures of this design were salvageable. Most had been hopelessly smashed by falling decorative plaster that had come loose due to water damage and fallen down onto the floor, taking the fixtures with it. We restored the three of these we saved, and I produced new etched glass for them, duplicating the patterns exactly from the fragments that remained.</p>
  • <p>Back cover of sheet music of the commemorative song, “Alexandria.”</p>
  • <p>This is an in situ view of the central light fixture which once hung in the auditorium of the Presidio Theatre. I photographed it in 1989 or 1990. It was taken down and dismantled when the theatre was divided, and parts of it were sold. A friend of mine in the salvage business acquired the central octagonal section and the innermost scrolls around it, and reassembled the parts, provided new obscure glass panels where originals had long ago been removed, and sold the entire piece intact. The large, sheet metal “sunrays” apparently had been discarded prior to my friend’s acquisition of the remaining parts.</p>
  • <p>Market Street Cinema from the balcony, showing how they built the strip club in the auditorium, stage, and lobby. They left most of the auditorium intact. I want people to know that there is in fact a classic movie palace hidden in the building and it should be preserved. I got this photo from a ghost hunters site, as the theatre seems to be quite haunted!</p>
  • <p>1957 photo courtesy of Kenneth McIntyre.</p>
  • <p>1991 photo</p>
  • <p>Mid `50’s. Photo courtesy of Lincoln Land Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>One of the restored vintage seats from the Strand, part of a group of seats presented to donors to ACT’s renovation of the theatre. The seat project was coordinated by ACT’s Denys Baker, and former Strand co-owner/operator, Greg King. Wood refinishing and general seat part restoration and reassembly by Greg King, iron seat part sandblasting and base coat painting by John Bartavian, decorative aisle standard painting by Gary Lee Parks. Photo by Greg King.</p>
  • <p>View of the restored neon letters from the late 1950s marquee, as viewed from the sidewalk and through the new front lobby windows. Letters restored by Greg King and Gary Lee Parks.</p>
  • <p>Opening Night daylight view of the facade, showing the restoration, as well as the new ACT vertical sign, and the modern marquee, which approximates the size and shape of the original canopy the theatre had when it first opened.</p>