Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>April 28, 1923. The Pawtucket Times featured a host of articles and illustrations on the new theatre on that day.</p>
  • <p>September 16, 1955. Revival neo-realist program.</p>
  • <p>October 3, 1939. Part of a weekly series of exploitational or risqué films.</p>
  • <p>Early 1900s or earlier, good postcard image of Lynch’s Theatre.</p>
  • <p>Rebuilt Bijou opens. Photo from The Woonsocket Call, December 30, 1937.</p>
  • <p>1936 photo courtesy of Lost SF.</p>
  • <p>December 30, 1937. Interior after rebuilding. Woonsocket Call photo.</p>
  • <p>December 24, 1908. Grand opening ad. It would open on the afternoon of Christmas Day.</p>
  • <p>July 14, 1954.</p>
  • <p>December 11, 1926.</p>
  • <p>March 7, 1930, in The Jewish Guardian.</p>
  • <p>March 26, 1921. This Chaplin movie played simultaneously that week at four Woonsocket theatres: Strand, Smith’s, Park, and Bijou.</p>
  • <p>September 17, 1954</p>
  • <p>May 21, 1958</p>
  • <p>screen 2</p>
  • <p>Photographed as the Premier Electric Theatre in September 1915. Courtesy Gary Lewis.</p>
  • <p>July 7, 1949</p>
  • <p>August 10, 1938.</p>
  • <p>USJB (Union St. Jean-Baptiste) parade in 1939. Stadium marquee in view. Also, down the street, is the vertical marquee of the Bijou Theatre.</p>
  • <p>You can still see the screen in this shot.</p>
  • <p>March 5, 1948.</p>
  • <p>March 20, 1931. Ad for films…and manure! In The Woonsocket Call.</p>
  • <p>November 7, 1946.</p>
  • <p>Photo in Woonsocket Call, January 14, 1956, showing the original interior of the Olympia theatre, the former Nickel, Strand, and Music Hall. It was about to be cut down in size to two floors and have a new front.</p>
  • <p>May 20, 1922.</p>