Rio Theatre

316 St. Charles Avenue,
New Orleans, LA 70130

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 14, 2013 at 1:58 pm

Here is another scan of the same photo, but it can be enlarged for great detail. The negative is dated October 29, 1941.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 14, 2013 at 1:09 pm

Here is a photo of the Joy Rio Theatre in the 1940s. Although demolished, this house has immortality of a sort. It was the setting for the short story “Mysteries of the Joy Rio Theatre” by Tennessee Williams, first published in 1941. In 1954, Williams published “Hard Candy”, a reworking of the original story, still set in the Rio Theatre.