This is where Ou Calcutta! had it’s world premiere, I believe, in 1969. This was obviously right before the move to Broadway, opening at the Belasco Theatre which was originally named coincidentally Stuyvesant.
I do have an organ pipe from the Victoria. Given to me by one of the demolition crew. My plan is to clone the theater back from this wooden organ pipe.
If the article about the planned theater didn’t list the architect as S.S. Sugar (sounds like the name of a boat), I would swear it was Thomas Lamb. The exterior looks so “Lambsian”.
This ad is for a different theater. Loew’s Canal is much farther East on Canal Street. If you told me Loew’s Canal was closed by the time the advertised movies were released, I wouldn’t doubt it.
The theater known as the New Yorker was opened in 1914. I guarantee that it did not have the Boak & Paris streamlined look as that was not a thing in 1914. Does anyone know if the Adelphi had a stage? Or who the original architects where?
There was a piece on channel 4 during the 6 - 6:30 news segment about this theater. One very cool find during renovations was the discovery of some original light fixtures. They are being rest Of and reinstalled.
I loved this theater. So way too many movies there. Over the years I have read that it had and that it had not. The question is did it possess a stage or stage facilities? I read somewhere on Cinema Treasures that a stage was added to keep it competitive but it had been built without one. I have to dig it out to verify but I believe that the Ben Hall book says that it did not. Does anyone know definitively?
I love the work of Thomas Lamb. I might be in a minority here but I believe that the guy never made a mistake. Without Thomas Lamb there would have been no Eugene DeLarosa. I know – bold statement. To me he is THE theatre architect. All though there is a similarity to others, this front, this taxpayer structure is my favorite theatre front that he ever did.
I love the work of Thomas Lamb. I might be in a minority here but I believe that the guy never made a mistake. Without Thomas Lamb there would have been no Eugene DeLarosa. I know – bold statement. To me he is THE theatre architect. All though there is a similarity to others, this front, this taxpayer structure is my favorite theatre front that he ever did.
This is where Ou Calcutta! had it’s world premiere, I believe, in 1969. This was obviously right before the move to Broadway, opening at the Belasco Theatre which was originally named coincidentally Stuyvesant.
I do have an organ pipe from the Victoria. Given to me by one of the demolition crew. My plan is to clone the theater back from this wooden organ pipe.
If the article about the planned theater didn’t list the architect as S.S. Sugar (sounds like the name of a boat), I would swear it was Thomas Lamb. The exterior looks so “Lambsian”.
This ad is for a different theater. Loew’s Canal is much farther East on Canal Street. If you told me Loew’s Canal was closed by the time the advertised movies were released, I wouldn’t doubt it.
The theater known as the New Yorker was opened in 1914. I guarantee that it did not have the Boak & Paris streamlined look as that was not a thing in 1914. Does anyone know if the Adelphi had a stage? Or who the original architects where?
There was a piece on channel 4 during the 6 - 6:30 news segment about this theater. One very cool find during renovations was the discovery of some original light fixtures. They are being rest Of and reinstalled.
I loved this theater. So way too many movies there. Over the years I have read that it had and that it had not. The question is did it possess a stage or stage facilities? I read somewhere on Cinema Treasures that a stage was added to keep it competitive but it had been built without one. I have to dig it out to verify but I believe that the Ben Hall book says that it did not. Does anyone know definitively?
I love the work of Thomas Lamb. I might be in a minority here but I believe that the guy never made a mistake. Without Thomas Lamb there would have been no Eugene DeLarosa. I know – bold statement. To me he is THE theatre architect. All though there is a similarity to others, this front, this taxpayer structure is my favorite theatre front that he ever did.
I love the work of Thomas Lamb. I might be in a minority here but I believe that the guy never made a mistake. Without Thomas Lamb there would have been no Eugene DeLarosa. I know – bold statement. To me he is THE theatre architect. All though there is a similarity to others, this front, this taxpayer structure is my favorite theatre front that he ever did.
Added pictures yesterday. Got in there last week!