Meet Me In Front of The Rialto — 1945
by Paula Bosse
“A great big howl of a hit!” (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
This photo shows the front of the Rialto theater, once located at Elm and Stone. I love the unavoidable promotion for the Jack Benny movie “The Horn Blows at Midnight,” but I love all that street life even more. And by the way, “Help Keep Dallas Clean”!
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Photo from the July 28, 1945 issue of Motion Picture Herald.
My favorite young movie-crazy Dallas diarist, Muriel Windham, would absolutely have walked past this (she probably didn’t see it, though, because she wasn’t a big fan of Jack Benny). (For the record, I LOVE Jack Benny!)
Click photo for gigantic image.
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
“lick those sons of heaven….”
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Lick ’em hard.
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Note historically correct olive drab mailbox next to the trash receptacle.
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Note also that street life here is pretty much bereft of military-age men.
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I have several historic photos of this block of Elm St. One is of my grandmother Kitty Thompson standing in Elm Street directly under The Rialto marquee along side The Budweiser Clydesdales (Anheuser-Busch) in 1953. I’m assuming that everyone knows that The Adolphus Hotel located one block west on Commerce was built by Adolphus Busch in 1912.
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