Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>Colorized version of the 1940 Russell Lee photo, by Imbued With Hues.</p>
  • <p>World Premiere (December 21st, 1946)</p>
  • <p>50th Anniversary of Opening (November 8th, 1973)</p>
  • <p>Colonel James Stewart returns home from the war to his hometown Indiana , Pa. - 1945</p>
  • <p>Plaza Theatre<br>107 N. Hudson Street. 1947.</p>
  • <p>May 1986</p>
  • <p>Closed by December 9th, 2023 according to its website.</p>
  • <p>Sign of the times as the Tryon Theatre’s attractor during the COVID-19 pandemic when movie theatres were shuttered in mid-March of 2020 from the theater’s Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Designed by Transit Tees.</p>
  • <p>Royal Theatre, pre-1915.</p>
  • <p>fixed colors</p>
  • <p>1956 photo courtesy Al Doowtrop‎.</p>
  • <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2966047763/in/photostream/">Heights Theater..Elmira Heights NY..Don Lewis / Billy Smith Vanishing Movie Theaters</a></p>
  • <p>2023 - at dusk</p>
  • <p>Infamous day for the Texas Theater pictured one day after the JFK assassination in Dallas. This Nov. 23, 1963 picture taken by the FBI (pic #51) in the Warren Commission file the day after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside the Texas Theater and charged with murdering President Kennedy.</p>
  • <p>Photo Courtesy of Chris Willman</p>
  • <p>I took this photo on Memorial Day weekend 1998 with the air full of floating milkweed seeds. It was a great old sign and a good drive-in, which typically showed double features. (Titanic, if you’ll recall, was over 3 hours long.)</p>
  • <p>This photo was taken in 1984.</p>