As a teenager in the fifties, I only got to go into the Loews State once but I was very impressed. I wanted to hear the organ but it was not played at that time. What a waste. Now there is a concrete blockhouse of condos or offices in that location if I am not mistaken.
Yes, the RKO Keith Memorial became the Opera House during Sarah Caldwell’s time there with her opera company. In the fifties, however, I spent a lot of time in that theater watching my favorite movies. That is a treasure that Boston cannot afford to lose. The city has lost too many already including its sister, the RKO Boston, which had Cinerama movies before becoming a porn house and then being demolished. And of course we have to controversial demolition of the actual Opera House on Huntington Avenue in the fifties. Thank god the Wang family saved the Metropolitan.
As a teenager in the fifties, I only got to go into the Loews State once but I was very impressed. I wanted to hear the organ but it was not played at that time. What a waste. Now there is a concrete blockhouse of condos or offices in that location if I am not mistaken.
Yes, the RKO Keith Memorial became the Opera House during Sarah Caldwell’s time there with her opera company. In the fifties, however, I spent a lot of time in that theater watching my favorite movies. That is a treasure that Boston cannot afford to lose. The city has lost too many already including its sister, the RKO Boston, which had Cinerama movies before becoming a porn house and then being demolished. And of course we have to controversial demolition of the actual Opera House on Huntington Avenue in the fifties. Thank god the Wang family saved the Metropolitan.