#vintage theater

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Montgomery Clift in Foxhole in the Parlor at the Booth Theatre in May/June 1945.

Photo: Eileen Darby via Bygone Broadway Instagram

[williammarksommer]

Central Theater

Nevada

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[thegreatgildy]

[citizenscreen]

The first Trans-Lux cinema opened at Madison Avenue and W. 58th Street in NYC on March 14th, 1931.

[doppleganger-rental]

[morffyne]

The Cameo Theatre at 1445 Washington Avenue opened its doors on November 4th, 1938. It is located in the Española Way Historic District, which in 1986 became the first historic district to ever be designated in Miami Beach. The theater was built in 1938 by New York theater magnate Herman Weingarten, as part of a $1,250,000 chain of 12 theaters in Miami and Miami Beach. Weingarten recognized the immense potential of the blooming area, proclaiming “This section is still in its infancy and I believe it to be the coming section of the country.”

The Art Deco style building was designed by architect Robert E. Collins and had a seating capacity of 1,160 with a balcony, a smoking loge, and an orchestra.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)

[mapsoffun]

Española Way in South Beach: a really pretty little pedestrian street lined with restaurants, but to be honest the first block of them are a bit…touristy. There’s a lovely crepe place that I wasn’t quite in the mood for at that point, and I really wished that Tropezon next door (the only way to find it is to spot this raccoon sign over the door) was open, but they don’t open until 5.

[artistmacposts]

Ramova Marquee Lighting, January 26, 2024

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe at Morosco Theater to watch "Cat On Hot Tin Roof", March 1955. Photo by Ed Feingersh.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Edward Hopper, a native New Yorker, was an avid theater-goer. These are some ticket stubs he saved between 1925 and 1936, with the names of the plays written on the back: Hamlet with Gielgud, Strange Interlude, Green Pastures, The Doctor's Dilemma, and six others. And the priciest was for Gielgud—$3.30 to sit in the orchestra.

Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art

[williammarksommer]

Sky Drive-In Theater

Lost Highway series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[thegreatgildy]

RKO Lincoln Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey

[citizenscreen]

New Orleans’ Vitascope Hall opened on July 26, 1896. #OnThisDay It is widely recognized as the world's first permanent, for-profit movie theater.

Image from 1916 The Motion Picture News shows William “Pop” Rock, the New York businessman who opened the theater with business partner Walter Wainwright (far right).

[oldnewyork]

Rialto Theater, opening of Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942)

[nesyanast]

Scene from the most famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk by the Vilner Trupe. 1910s.