Your otherwise good photo of the Tower Theater building misses one very important part of the building — the tower from with the building got its name.
You can see the base of the tower: it’s that set of blue poles over the “tower” sign. It goes up pretty high (or what seemed to be pretty high to a small kid in the late 1930s and ‘40s. If I remember correctly, it was capped with a lighted, rotating ball. It was a great sight coming over 69th Street hill at night.
Your otherwise good photo of the Tower Theater building misses one very important part of the building — the tower from with the building got its name.
You can see the base of the tower: it’s that set of blue poles over the “tower” sign. It goes up pretty high (or what seemed to be pretty high to a small kid in the late 1930s and ‘40s. If I remember correctly, it was capped with a lighted, rotating ball. It was a great sight coming over 69th Street hill at night.