Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>The current interior looks NOTHING like it did back in the ‘20’s!</p>
  • <p>ABOVE: As the Royal appears in Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” (1971) BELOW: The cinema frontage as it appears in the poster art by Richard Amsel (1947-1985) for the Columbia film.</p>
  • <p>Stage, 1890.</p>
  • <p>Opening day ad 2-15-1938.</p>
  • <p>June 17, 1956. Candy girl want ad. Hartford Courant.</p>
  • <p>August 26, 1923. Hartford Courant. Ad showing entrance and marquee.</p>
  • <p>First full view of the interior I have seen. Hartford Courant, August 26, 1923.</p>
  • <p>In 1941.</p>
  • <p>Auditorium from raised mezzanine section</p>
  • <p>Kennedy Family Attends “Pinocchio” (February, 1940)</p>
  • <p>1945</p>
  • <p>November 12, 1936. Italian silent.</p>
  • <p>Jan 1, 1958 the Liberty Theatre re-opens as the Art Cinema with the French film “Gervaise.”</p>
  • <p>Ad for 1878 opening as Low’s.</p>
  • <p>In 1933 or so.</p>
  • <p>March 2014 photo.</p>
  • <p>June 12, 1984. Sack Cinema Complex. Lettering the marquee. Boston Globe.</p>
  • <p>In 1941.</p>
  • <p>That’s actor Broderick Craford with Morse Theatre owner Walter Mitchell at right and Morse Theatre manager at the left making a personal appearance in 1951 for “The Mob”</p>
  • <p>In 1966 or so.</p>