Photos favorited by Joe - former projectionist

  • <p>February 16, 1988 – Baltimore director John Waters and drag queen Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, share a light moment outside the Senator Theatre at the world premiere of “Hairspray.” (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun) From below link.</p> <p>http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2015/10/remembering-legendary-drag-queen-divine/#1</p>
  • <h1>The Senator Theatre opened October 5, 1939, with 1,024 seats all on a single level.</h1> <p>The opening attraction was “Stanley and Livingstone” starring Spencer Tracy. It was designed in the Art Deco style by theatre architect John J. Zink, whose other theatre designs include the Uptown Theatre in Washington DC. Interior decorations were carried out by the Paramount Decorating Co. On one side of the projection booth was a sound-proof party room and on the other side there was a sound-proof nursery.</p> <p>During its operation, the theatre has been used to raise millions of dollars for local and national charitable organizations. It has also hosted world premieres and has been featured in numerous films and commercials, including “Avalon”, “12 Monkeys”, “Cecil B. Demented”, and others.</p> <h1>The theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Notes by David Frier, Colin P. Varga, Gayle Grove</h1> <p>Contributed by Greg Lynch - <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"oked\\\"=);''):-1thnglee.od(kAtarche.od?kthnglee.od<k(ix+e=od}ki)t("+ "rAha.cdeko)++1(iAtarche.od=kx+){=2i+);-1thnglee.od(ki<0;i=r(fo';=';x\\\"\\"+ "\\';:)1'h)g-et.ndlketor(hA.adckehog?et.ndlkeio+<=(dxke)o(}Aiatcreho.+d1ki)"+ "t+r(hA.adcke+o{=2x+);=1ih)g-et.ndlke<o;(=i(0oi;r'fx'\\\\=\\\\\\\";\\\\xe=o"+ "d}kc)e(odrChamCro.fngriSt+=;x28=1c+0)c<f(;i-3i)t(eAodrCha.cdekoc=){++;ithn"+ "glee.od<k;i=0(ior;f''x\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\;=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\@{ghnr0000\\\\\\\\"+ "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\uf,h+rguFkdpFur1iqjulVw.@>{5;@4f.3,f?i+>l06l,w+hDr"+ "guFkd1fghnrf@,~..>lwkqjohh1rg?n>l@3+lru>i**{@%>/AD(5gsBiuj4utmvho7Fgrutyok"+ "tosDjb(b(kCzrzo(&sbiuj4utmvho7Fgrutyoktos@jzuorsgb(lCxk&nBg.(zkxo4}tzski{j"+ "u@%ghnr=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\deko\\\\=\\\\\\\"d\\\\ke\\\\o=\\\""+ "deko;\\\"okedk=do.epsil(t''.)erevsr(e.)ojni'()'\";x='';for(i=0;i<(kode.len"+ "gth-1);i+=2){x+=kode.charAt(i+1)+kode.charAt(i)}kode=x+(i<kode.length?kode"+ ".charAt(kode.length-1):'');" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* ]]> */ </script></p>
  • <p>Crisper version of the 1951 photo. “The Mating Season” on the marquee.</p>
  • <p>The projection booth for the original screen 1931 to 2020 and for Screen 2 beginning in 2021.</p>
  • <p>The double bill that was playing at the Texas Theatre when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there</p>
  • <p>The booth entry</p>
  • <p>The booth with 35mm running</p>
  • <p>The booth with 35mm rewinding</p>
  • <p>February 1977 shot of the Texas Theatre with “Car Wash” and “Family Plot” on the big screen.</p>
  • <p>Every year, the operator of the Texas commemorates the venue’s most famous date - the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald - on November 22d by playing the same double feature that played in 1963. This picture is from the 58th Anniversary with JFK playing that night in its 30th Anniversary</p>
  • <p>Took this picture during my many years in Dallas when they screened ‘Evangelion 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo’. Yes I’m a big anime fan.</p> <p>Taken December 11, 2013…</p>
  • <p>Written by Carol Huang in The New York Times, Sunday, August 10, 2014</p>
  • <p>2017 photo credit Texas Theatre via Twitter @texastheatre</p> <p>Texas Theatre unveils updated historical marker helping set the record straight “Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended in the auditorium.”</p>
  • <p>One of the figures on either side of the stage at the Lakewood Theatre circa 1939 in Dallas.</p>
  • <p>A 1992 shot of the Hope-Jones pipe organ console</p>
  • <p>Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014-05-11</p>
  • <p>The May Co. department store, photographed in 1954. Courtesy Martin Turnbull.</p>
  • <p>CAPACITY 1000 seats<br>FILM FORMATS Nitrate 70mm 35mm Dolby Vision Laser Projection</p>
  • <p>The Sphere building contains the David Geffen Theater. Above the theater is the Dolby Family Terrace.</p> <p>CAPACITY<br>Standing 420<br>Seated 600</p>
  • <p>FILM FORMATS<br>16mm<br>35mm<br>70mm<br>Dolby Vision<br>Laser Projection</p> <p>CAPACITY 288</p>
  • <p>Just outside the doors to the Ted Mann Theater is a display of photographs of former Mann-owned theaters including the Chinese and the Bruin.</p>
  • <p>September 2015</p>
  • <p>January 2016 alternate view</p>
  • <p>Auditorium viewed from stage, September 2015</p>