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  • <p>My dad, Wilfred Alexander Gartley (far left), shortly after returning from France, at his first job after the war.  The Colonial was showing the silent film, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.</p>
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              <li>1980 photograph from the Billy Holcomb Collection, courtesy Don Lewis.</li>
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  • <p>1954 photo credit & copyright © caferisque.</p>
  • <p>My cousin and I had walked over from his Westwood apartment actually to see “Old Gringo” at the Fox Westwood Village Theatre that night, and I brought my camera along.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1962 photo courtesy Augie Castagnola‎.</p>
  • <p>Photographed in 1957.  Courtesy Deutschen Filmmuseums Frankfurt</p>
  • <p>1935 or 36</p>
  • <p>Spotlighted in trade journal ad (1921)</p>
  • <p>1921 exterior shot of the Regent in Brighton.</p>
  • <p>The Colonial is one of the 20 theaters featured in my book, <a href="https://afterthefinalcurtain.net/books/">After the Final Curtain: America’s Abandoned Theaters</a>. It’s currently being restored, and will reopen in the Fall of 2020.</p>
  • <p><a href="https://afterthefinalcurtain.net/2020/01/08/colonial-theatre-laconia-nh/">Colonial Theatre - Laconia, NH</a></p>
  • <p>Newly redone marquee</p>
  • <p>August 2006.</p>
  • <p>PADUA THEATRE BRUNSWICK VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – INTERIOR – Later to become The Metropolitan Theatre – Photo from the Harold Paynting Collection.</p>
            
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  • <p>Crying Room at the Garmer Theatre. Photo courtesy of Benny Ballejo.</p>
  • <p>Photo courtesy of Benny Ballejo.</p>
  • <p>Apparently the original tabs were of appliqué ocean liners, which met as the tabs closed. That must have been impressive, but this is a later photograph.</p>
  • <p>After a twenty million dollar renovation</p>
  • <p><A HREF="http://www.afterthefinalcurtain.net">After the Final Curtain</A><br></p>