Photos favorited by TLSLOEWS

  • <p>The lobby at grand opening.</p>
  • <p>Loew’s Midland Kansas City, Missouri Opened October 28, 1922 Thomas Lamb, Architect Loew’s Collection, THSA American Theatre Architecture Archive Courtesy Theatre Historical Society of America.</p>
  • <p>Day Before Memorial Day (May 29th, 1941)</p>
  • <p>Loew’s Midland
              Kansas City, Missouri
              Opened October 28, 1922
              Thomas Lamb, Architect
              Loew’s Collection, THSA American Theatre Architecture Archive
              Courtesy Theatre Historical Society of America.</p>
  • <p>1965 photo courtesy Larry Storch.</p>
  • <p>With “Unconquered” as top feature (May, 1948)</p>
  • <p>Advertised on August 31st, 1955</p>
  • <p>With original marquee and vertical (1917)</p>
  • <p>The original ticket booth to the Loew’s from 1921 would sell almost fifty years later for $50 at auction just prior to the razing of the property.</p>
  • <p>Famed demolitionist Edward J. Zebrowski — the “Big Z” — was brought in to strip the Loew’s Theatre the items of which he sold in a tag sale and, then, finally at an auction. Unsold items were crushed days later as the crew begins work here.</p>
  • <p>A world premiere.</p>
  • <p>A new marquee in 1947.</p>
  • <p>Closed.</p>
  • <p>Rival circuits on May 6th, 1943</p>
  • <p>1973 photo courtesy 70s/80s New York City Facebook page.</p>