Back in January of 2010, I posted an entry here about a long-since-vanished movie theater that was located on the now-unlikely strip of Madison Avenue and 85th street. I'd vividly recalled being taken there as a child innumerable times and marveling at its distinctive interior decor. Then, in December of 2010, I managed to actually track down a photo of the Trans-Lux theater in question -- albeit from 1937 (not exactly the era I'd remembered, obviously, but enough to recognize it).
Yesterday, I randomly happened upon an amazing collection of photographs by one Elaine Norman, a New Yorker with an eye for many of New York City's myriad heretofore vanished details. There at the top of this collection, meanwhile, was a shot of the Trans-Lux theater that she snapped in 1981. I hope she doesn't mine me repurposing it here, as it truly put the hook in me. Click here to check out more pictures from her collection.
Just the couple of interior shots she includes there bring it home about your feeling for the place. WOW!
And Ms Norman's pics in that particular collection, AND her other groupings are VERY evocative of a time and place now long gone. She's GOT the look!
Posted by: DrBOP | March 26, 2013 at 03:15 PM