Photos favorited by Kinospotter

  • <p>Auditorium view from balcony</p>
  • <p>When cars were the big attraction here. Photo from SF Public Library.</p>
  • <p>Souvenir ticket to the premier of The Beatles second feature film; “Help!” Wednesday, September 1st, 1965</p>
  • <p>Auditorium viewed from the mezzanine balcony. July 2019.</p>
  • <p>Trade journal report on site’s modernization in 1962</p>
  • <p>Photo courtesy Honolulu Then and Now Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>This 1991 photo by John Margolies is in the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, and is effectively in the public domain. Higher-res versions are available at the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2017707942/">Library of Congress</a>.</p>
  • <p>Undated post card courtesy of Chuck Zornig III.</p> <p>Joseph Santley’s Wiki page.</p> <p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Santley</p>
  • <p>View of the proscenium in the Schiller Building (Garrick Theatre), Chicago, Illinois. Photo courtesy of the Richard Nickel Committee and Archive.</p>
  • <p>1959 photo via Phil Wizenick.</p>
  • <p>My dad, Wilfred Alexander Gartley (far left), shortly after returning from France, at his first job after the war. The Colonial was showing the silent film, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.</p>
  • <ol type="a"> <li>1980 photograph from the Billy Holcomb Collection, courtesy Don Lewis.</li> </ol>
  • <p>1954 photo credit & copyright © caferisque.</p>
  • <p>My cousin and I had walked over from his Westwood apartment actually to see “Old Gringo” at the Fox Westwood Village Theatre that night, and I brought my camera along.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1962 photo courtesy Augie Castagnola‎.</p>
  • <p>Photographed in 1957. Courtesy Deutschen Filmmuseums Frankfurt</p>
  • <p>1935 or 36</p>
  • <p>Spotlighted in trade journal ad (1921)</p>
  • <p>1921 exterior shot of the Regent in Brighton.</p>
  • <p>The Colonial is one of the 20 theaters featured in my book, <a href="https://afterthefinalcurtain.net/books/">After the Final Curtain: America’s Abandoned Theaters</a>. It’s currently being restored, and will reopen in the Fall of 2020.</p>
  • <p><a href="https://afterthefinalcurtain.net/2020/01/08/colonial-theatre-laconia-nh/">Colonial Theatre - Laconia, NH</a></p>