Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>1934 photo credit Massachusetts Historical Society.</p>
  • <p>Images of America book on Newark theatres. Loew’s on cover.</p>
  • <p>Yiddish film program, year of showing uncertain. The film was released in 1938.</p>
  • <p>In the 1920s.</p>
  • <p>From the Evening Bulletin, February 8, 1949.</p>
  • <p>Don’t know the year or the film playing, but a lot of European films ran here, as the cinema’s name suggests as well as some of the ads elsewhere.</p>
  • <p>The first film to be shown at the IOKA was ‘Birth of a Nation’ in 1915.</p>
  • <p>“Empire Theatre” Block Island. Mixed media collage by artist Gillian Stevens.</p>
  • <p>Empire Theatre marquee visible, 1950.</p>
  • <p>May 25, 1917. Notice in Berkshire Gleaner. Film “The Italian” playing.</p>
  • <p>June 15, 1917 at the Lee Town Hall. CABIRIA was the groundbreaking and influential Italian silent spectacle.</p>
  • <p>Tito Schipa</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture News, July 12, 1930</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture News, July 12, 1930</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture News, July 12, 1930</p>
  • <p>March 17, 1949.</p>
  • <p>April 26, 1950.</p>
  • <p>Interior.</p>
  • <p>February 7, 1941 ad in Berkshire Gleaner.</p>
  • <p>Street View image</p>
  • <p>Interior.</p>
  • <p>Drive-In in autumn.</p>
  • <p>Here’s the auditorium of the Grand Central Theatre in 1937</p>
  • <p>In 2025.</p>
  • <p>September, 1956.</p>
  • <p>In 1933.</p>