Theatre Row — A Stunning Elm Street at Night
by Paula Bosse
Elm Street, looking east… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Damn you, suburban theaters and television, for killing this! (Hang in there, Majestic!)
Favorite thing gleaned from the postcard above? That Dallas had a newsreel-only theater — the Telenews. (See the original, somewhat pedestrian, daytime photograph which was transformed by all sorts of dazzling magic in order to turn it into that striking postcard, here.)
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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
Please suh…may I have more?
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[…] Honorable Mention: A whole bunch of cool night-time postcards in “Theatre Row — A Stunning Elm Street at Night.” […]
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Surprised to see Lerner’s and Paul Shoes! Wish I could read the name of the cafeteria. It was Dunston’s, or was it Duncan’s when I would meet my Sunday school teacher there for luncheon.
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Lontos Cafe and Dunton’s Cafeteria were one door apart in the Palace block.
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One of the downtown theaters was rigged for Cinerama in the 60s. The Capri they say. I saw How the West Was Won with the 3-projector setup there and later The Greatest Story Ever Told, Mad Mad Mad Mad World and 2001 A Space Odyssey after Cinerama became single-projector. Saw Ben-Hur at the Tower in 1959. In those days you made a reservation for specific seats on a specific day and time.
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I saw those same movies back then. My parents use to take me downtown on Saturday night and we would go to two movies in one night. I remember the Palace theater having an organ that came up out of the floor on the stage during intermissions.
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