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Print Sale – Winter 2012

February 21, 2012

Lobby, Loew's Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, New York

Some of my photography was recently featured in an online gallery show, and I have a few prints left over.  They are in numbered editions of five and will not be available in these sizes again.

The sizes available are:

12″x18″ – $50.00

16″x24″ – $75.00

Please Email Me if interested. Payment accepted via Paypal, Credit Card or Personal check.

View from the balcony, Loew's Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, New York

View from the balcony, Loew's Palace Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Projection Room, Proctor's Palace Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Balcony, Proctor's Palace Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Stage, Proctor's Palace Roof Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Auditorium, Proctors Palace Roof Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Backstage, Proctor's Palace Roof Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Auditorium, Boyd Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Box Seats, Paramount Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Balcony, Liberty/Paramount Theatre, Youngstown, Ohio

Auditorium during demolition, Montauk Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey

Ceiling, Center Theatre, Woodbourne, New York

The Ridgewood Theatre

February 13, 2012
Proscenium Arch - Ridgewood Theatre

The top of the Ridgewood Theatre's proscenium arch.

The Ridgewood Theatre opened on December 23, 1916. Located in the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens, New York, the 2,500 seat theater was built by the Levy Brothers Real Estate firm. The Ridgewood was designed by famed theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, who is known for the design of many New York area theaters. The Ridgewood was modeled after the now demolished Mark Strand Theatre, which was the first ever motion picture palace.

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Q&A with Howard B. Haas, President of Friends of the Boyd

January 24, 2012

The Boyd Theatre's proscenium arch.

After photographing the Boyd Theater I learned a little bit about the Friends of the Boyd.  I had a lot of questions, and luckily the group’s president and chairman Howard B. Haas was available to answer them.  Below are his responses to several questions about the history of the Friends, his own personal experiences with the theater and some of his hopes for the future.

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The Lansdowne Theatre

January 12, 2012
Lansdowne theater auditorium

The Lansdowne Theatre auditorium.

The Lansdowne Theatre opened on June 7, 1927 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia). The 1,381 seat theater was designed by William H. Lee, a Philadelphia based architect known for the recently renovated Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Loew’s Majestic Theatre

December 15, 2011

View of the Majestic Theatre from the front of the balcony.

The Loew’s Majestic Theatre opened on November 4, 1922 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb (who also designed the other theater in the complex, the Loew’s Palace Theatre, and many other theaters at the time) for theater mogul Sylvester Z. Poli, who also owned the nearby Palace Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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The Boyd Theatre

November 29, 2011

View of the auditorium from the balcony.

The Boyd Theatre, downtown Philadelphia’s only art deco movie palace, opened on Christmas day in 1928 (the same day as the RKO Keith’s Theater in Queens, NY). Located in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood, the 2,450 seat theater was commissioned by Alexander Boyd and built by Hoffman-Henon, a Philadelphia architecture firm also known for the construction of the nearby Prince Music Theatre. One of the companies commissioned for the Boyd’s interior decoration was the Rambusch Company, who later decorated the Loew’s Kings Theatre.
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The RKO Hamilton Theatre

November 7, 2011

View from the balcony of the RKO Hamilton Theatre

Moss and Brill’s Hamilton Theatre opened on January 23, 1913 in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The theater was commissioned by vaudeville operator Benjamin S. Moss and theater developer Solomon Brill and designed by the prolific Thomas W. Lamb, known for the architecture of many of the Hamilton’s contemporaries.   Lamb designed the Hamilton in the Renaissance Revival style, incorporating a terracotta façade.

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Loew’s Palace Theatre

October 13, 2011

View of the Loew's Palace Theatre from the balcony.

The Loew’s Palace Theatre opened as the Poli’s Palace Theatre on September 4, 1922 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb (whose work can be seen in my posts on the Newark Paramount Theatre and the RKO Keith’s Theatre) for theater mogul Sylvester Z. Poli, who also owned the nearby Palace Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut. The 3,642 seat Loew’s Poli Theatre was the biggest movie theater in Connecticut, and remains the largest of Bridgeport’s theaters. Its sister theater which is located next to the Palace in the same building, the Majestic, opened two months later. The walls of the Palace are covered with frescoes of formal Italian gardens painted by Hans Lehman.
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Popcorn Palaces

October 10, 2011

Loew's Majestic Theatre Bridgeport, CT

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve joined the creative team of Popcorn Palaces, an upcoming documentary that will cover the rise, fall and rebirth of some of America’s greatest theaters!

“Once upon a time, the theatre in which you saw a movie could be just as special as the movie itself. The theatres that America built in the 20s and 30s were extravagant, exotic fantasies designed to transport the audience into another world. The show started on the sidewalk the moment you saw the theatre’s towering sign, outlined in thousands of flashing, chasing lights, spelling out the words PARAMOUNT or FOX or LOEW’S. You had found your way to an acre of seats in a garden of dreams. “Popcorn Palaces” will not only be a celebration of America’s moviegoing legacy, it will also be the story of how theatres today are striving to develop new audiences. Long before there was a multiplex or HBO or Netflix, the ritual of going to the movies provided us with a gateway to a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and our world. Today theatres are priceless resources that are bringing new vitality and civic pride to our cities. Far from seeing themselves as a club for the aged, historic theatres have made educational outreach programs central to their mission. Theatres are part of our past. They are also a vital part of our future.”

Please check out the Popcorn Palaces website at: www.popcornpalaces.com and be sure to like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/popcornpalaces

The Newark Paramount Theatre

September 28, 2011

View of the Paramount Theatre from the balcony.

The Paramount Theatre opened on October 11, 1886 as H.C. Miner’s Newark Theatre. It was originally a vaudeville house managed by Hyde & Behman Amusement Co., a Brooklyn based theater Management Company. After H.C. Miner’s death in 1900, his surviving relatives retained ownership of the theater for several years until its sale in 1916 to Edward Spiegel, the owner of the nearby Strand Theatre. Spiegel also purchased the building next to the theater with the intent to use the space to expand the theater. To accomplish this he hired famed theater architect Thomas W. Lamb to do the alterations.

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