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  • <p>Boxoffice, 1/14/74.</p>
  • <p>This picture of the Beacon was taken on Feb. 2, 1963.</p>
  • <p>This was the Beacon in 1970 with its new marquee.</p>
  • <p>This was taken from the balcony in 1970, with the curtains opened all the way for CinemaScope.</p>
  • <p>This is the Beacon auditorium taken from under the balcony in 1970. The black stripe down the middle of the curtain was masking strips used to mask the screen for 1:85 to 1 pictures. They were the leading edges of the curtain.</p>
  • <p>This is the projection booth. Equipment was Super Simplex projectors, Century soundheads, and Strong Mogul carbon arc lamps.</p>
  • <p>1979 photo credit John P. Keating Jr.</p>
  • <p>Screen cap of a Kodachrome home-movie in 1952</p>
  • <p>Auditorium # 2, one of the largest.</p>
  • <p>Newsreel Theatre</p>
  • <p>Advertised on January 21st, 1938</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 10/15/49.</p>
  • <p>Photo from the Dayton Metro Library.</p>
  • <p>From 1969</p>
  • <p>Same Century projector and RCA soundhead from 1985 to 2006</p>
  • <p>Potts platter, Strong Xenon lamp, Simplex projector with DTS reader on top</p>
  • <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/3330309820/">Rialto Theater..Denison Texas..Billy Holcomb Collection / Don Lewis Vanishing Movie Theaters</a>.</p>
  • <p>Photo courtesy of Billy Holcomb</p> <p>1949-State Theater-Denison, Texas-Strawberry Roan Premier-Plus Saturday Morning Free Show Back In The Saddle</p>
  • <p>R.D. Weatherman does this front for “The Littlest Rebel” playing in Dennison at the Rialto Theatre in 1935</p>
  • <p>This picture was taken prior to the Rostone material facade was installed. circa 1938</p>
  • <p>Taken 1989.</p>