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Don’t think so. This has all their shows as far as I know.
http://www.dead.net/shows/
Maybe September 20, 1976, but the information is scant.
http://tinyurl.com/3p2caup
Thanks. I always remember the magnificent Radio City Music Hall back in the 1950s and early ‘60s. What a glorious theatre.
I was a youngster, and I was mortified that my parents would pack sandwiches and would eat them in the lobby when we visited NYC and the Music Hall.
I recall folks could smoke while watching the film, too. I guess that was true in many if not most theatres.
I managed to narrow the time-frame down. Red Skelton was in Reading in early 1978 to support the restortion.
It’s a shame, because it was a beautiful theatre in its day.
Many years later (2008) – and purely by chance – I met Red’s widow in Riverside, California, where he had lived.
Didn’t Red Skelton visit Reading in the early 1980s to support the restoration of the Astor Theatre?
Reason I ask is that I ran into him at 5th and Penn Streets in front of Whitners on one cold February morning in the early 1980s (I think it was).
He was a very gracious gentleman -almost “shy”. He gave me his autograph, and that was that.
Any recollections?
Don’t think so. This has all their shows as far as I know.
http://www.dead.net/shows/
Maybe September 20, 1976, but the information is scant.
http://tinyurl.com/3p2caup
Thanks. I always remember the magnificent Radio City Music Hall back in the 1950s and early ‘60s. What a glorious theatre.
I was a youngster, and I was mortified that my parents would pack sandwiches and would eat them in the lobby when we visited NYC and the Music Hall.
I recall folks could smoke while watching the film, too. I guess that was true in many if not most theatres.
I managed to narrow the time-frame down. Red Skelton was in Reading in early 1978 to support the restortion.
It’s a shame, because it was a beautiful theatre in its day.
Many years later (2008) – and purely by chance – I met Red’s widow in Riverside, California, where he had lived.
Didn’t Red Skelton visit Reading in the early 1980s to support the restoration of the Astor Theatre?
Reason I ask is that I ran into him at 5th and Penn Streets in front of Whitners on one cold February morning in the early 1980s (I think it was).
He was a very gracious gentleman -almost “shy”. He gave me his autograph, and that was that.
Any recollections?