Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>A seven-foot homemade standee at the Colonial Theatre in the lobby in Allentown circa 1938 for “The Old Mill,” a Mickey Mouse cartoon short.</p>
  • <p>Artist Will Wills and manager Leo Rosen of the Strand Theatre in Syracuse promote the latest Mickey Mouse cartoon and James Cagney film in 1932.</p>
  • <p>An ad as the Center Theatre in 1947 with Chaplin shorts and the Tex Avery cartoon, “Red Hot Riding Hood,” they couldn’t miss.</p>
  • <p>Lobby shot of the Stuart Theatre as its manager creates a standee for a Bugs Bunny special show in 1942. If the kids bring a carrot, they get a drawing for one of five live bunnies to be given away during the matinee.</p>
  • <p>Grand opening ad at left as Cinema 1&2 launched in DeKalb on January 19, 1972 with the films, “Dirty Harry” and “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”. The cinemas closed on July 23, 1999 (signage and ad at left) with “The Mummy”, “An Ideal Husband”, “The Matrix” and “Tea with Mussolini”.</p>
  • <p>May 2013</p>
  • <p>1950’s “Free Coke” card with “Sprite Boy” image.</p>
  • <p>Recent photo of building still standing. We rented out the building for the Eleventh Hour Haunted House in 2001-2002 and had to relocate in order for the building to be torn down for the college but it never happened.</p>
  • <p>From the July 2, 1947 issue of The Pantagraph of Bloomington. Not my copyright, of course, and possibly in the public domain.</p>
  • <p>Opening scene from “Suddenly!” (1954).</p>
  • <p>July 23rd, 1948</p>
  • <p>Nov 26,1954 grand opening ad.</p>
  • <p>Aug 15,1947 Grand Opening Night</p>
  • <p>The Hook Theatre launched May 9, 1947 with “Song of the South.”</p>
  • <p>March 31st, 1971 grand opening ad as Cinema III</p>
  • <p>Stardust Drive-In in the background.</p>
  • <p>June 2nd, 1949</p>
  • <p>May 3rd, 1949 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>D.O. “Boyd” and Imogene Milligan built The Poly. It opened on May 24, 1951 with “Ma and Pa Kettle on the Farm” supported by a a cartoon and newsreel on a thirty-year lease.</p>
  • <p>GENERAL CINEMA WESTGATE CINEMA l & ll, 2/1984. later made both were spit to four theaters. the theater is now gone other have been built by others.</p>
  • <p>Taken late 1993.</p>
  • <p>Credit goes to Cinematour</p>
  • <p>GENERAL CINEMA CORP. OPEN THIS UNITE</p>