Photos favorited by jdicarlo

  • <p>June 1970 photo & description courtesy Mike Simunek.</p> <p>“In June 1970, Grand Funk Railroad spends $100,000 for a block long billboard in NYC’s Times Square to advertise their latest record, “Closer to Home”. It was billed at the time as "the world’s largest billboard.”</p> <p>Biggest touring act of 1970 too.</p>
  • <p>1968 image credit Boxoffice Magazine, courtesy Ray Bentley.</p>
  • <p>1984 photo credit Ghislian Bonneau.</p>
  • <p>1971 screen grab from “The French Connection”.<br>Circus Cinema on the left.</p>
  • <p>Sweet and Sticky!</p>
  • <p>Mid `70’s photo credit Diane Worland.</p> <p>http://www.dianeworland.com/</p>
  • <p>Being prepared for demolition in May 2006.</p>
  • <p>1960 Kodachrome slide image credit Martin Plucinski.</p>
  • <p>The Embassy Theatre was opened here by Loew’s Inc. on August 26, 1925 with Eric Von Stroheim’s “The Merry Widow”.</p>
  • <p>The Embassy on Dec. 6, 1989 Also the adjacent three Embassy Theatres next door. Enjoy.</p>
  • <p>July 2003</p>
  • <p>Photo taken by my father in 1959.</p>
  • <p>As seen in the 1981 film, THE FAN. The film was shot in 1980. The film advertised is ALL THAT JAZZ, starring Roy Scheider, which played at this theater in late March of 1980.</p>
  • <p>1953 Photo credit Samuel Gottscho.</p>
  • <p>Times Square Visitor Center</p>
  • <p>June 2013</p>
  • <p>1959 photo, source unknown.</p>
  • <p>1978 photo courtesy of the NYC 1950 to Present Facebook page.</p>