Embassy Theatre Continues to Update Archives
The Fort Wayne (IN) Embassy Theatre’s ninetieth anniversary year, 2018, has been a busy one with a special show in...
Rooftop Garden Theaters
In the late 1880s, inspired by European designs, architects and building planners decided to make use of a structure’s roof...
Raymond K. Shepardson: The Father of Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Foundation
Ray Shepardson (January 13, 1944 – April 14, 2014) was a theatre restoration specialist and theatre operator credited by many with beginning the...
Restoring the Glory of the Oakland Paramount Theatre: The Ladies Smoking Lounge
In the last “Smokin’” issue of Marquee (Volume 50 Number1), we shared a 1932 Photo of the Ladies Smoking Lounge....
Archiving the historic Embassy Theatre – Ft. Wayne, Indiana
This exciting text appeared in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel for 14 May 1928 in a large advertisement featuring a fanciful...
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
This past week I stumbled across a folder related to Mickey Mouse while working on a research request for someone. ...
Gone But Not Forgotten: Things We No Longer See in Movie Theatres
Before the sprawling multiplex came the movie palace. Even from a distance, one recognized that it was a special place....
Farewell, Drake Theater (Oil City, PA)
We had the opportunity to visit the former Drake Theater in Oil City, PA, which has been closed for many...
The Sunday Movie Fight
Although the decade of the 1920s is often thought of in terms of mobsters and flappers, bootlegging and dancing, the...
Harry Davis & John Harris – Pittsburgh’s Entertainment Visionaries
Pittsburgh is rich in theatre and film history, and as part of our holiday Pop-Up Nickelodeon, we’d like to share...
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