In the next few weeks, the blog will be featuring men in gym shorts, the male nudes of Helmut Rottgen, 1950s men's pulp magazines, some recent finds by Earle Forbes, a whole lot of Irish for a certain holiday, and finally Physique Week beginning on March 30. Stay tuned.
Like the days of the grand cinema palaces of old. In DC we had the art deco Trans-Lux and the palatial RKO Keith and the Loew’s Palace. Another was in Maryland, an old vaudeville theater in art nouveau style, with a fan shaped interior and a purple stage curtain trimmed with leaves of gold and silver thread.
ReplyDeleteAnticipating more of your fine “shows”. Can’t wait to see the work of Earle Forbes, the pulp mags and Physique Week. :)
Rex in DC
Nearly every Saturday from 1956 to 1969 I went to the Majestic in my piss-ant home town in West Texas. Aldo Ray really got my attention in all those war movies. Serious boy crush.
DeleteSeattle had the Orpheum Theater, among others. It was so well built that it took weeks longer than expected to demolish it. Sad to see it go. My mother sang in many of the theaters in town when they were still a vibrant part of the entertainment scene. Sadly, most of these beautiful structures were demolished.
ReplyDelete"Progress" isn't always better when we lose treasures.
DeleteIn San Francisco we had the Fox Palace, built like a grand European opera house.
ReplyDeleteSadly it was demolished amid a public outcry. The Alhambra, now a fitness center, was another one where my grandparents saw and heard their first sound film. As grandad said, it was the end of an era as silent films gave way to sound films.
-CA jock