Photos favorited by Willburg145

  • <p>1955 photo courtesy of Kenneth McIntyre.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 5/10/71.</p>
  • <p>Lobby chandelier. It should be noted that the colors on the ornamental plasterwork of the ceiling are not the original scheme. The interior colors were largely intact–though dirty–at the time of the Paramount/Portland’s conversion to a formal concert hall. They were painted over in a lighter, more neutral palette. 2007 photo.</p>
  • <p>Lobby</p>
  • <p>The Rialto Theatre hires four Indian braves to pitch their tent in the foyer of the theater in 1930 to help support, “The Silent Enemy.”</p>
  • <p>1954 interior shot</p>
  • <p>Mid-century furniture and intensely loud carpeting take the Fox into the side 1950s in this revamping</p>
  • <p>Space age women’s powder room at the Fox in 1954</p>
  • <p>The Fox snack bar at launch, August 12, 1954</p>
  • <p>August 12, 1954 and the former Mayfair now Fox and its widescreen abilities are ready for a grand reopening</p>
  • <p>With 20th-Fox double feature in 1953</p>
  • <p>Auditorium side view (1925)</p>
  • <p>Auditorium towards stadium section (1925)</p>
  • <p>Auditorium towards stage</p>
  • <p>This isn’t the Viking but rather another Star Theatre in Astoria, a 400 seat theatre which has the operators posing in 1910.</p>
  • <p>Architecture and Building, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Apr. 1915)</p>
  • <p>Lobby, October 2003</p>
  • <p>Theater 4 (Balcony), October 2003</p>
  • <p>Old projection booth, October 2003</p>