It is difficult to find pictures of lobby cards at the old movie theatres. They
were usually on the walls in the outer and/or inner lobby (hence the name lobby
cards) of the theatre. After you bought your ticket at boxoffice ticket window,
you could see the lobby cards on the walls before you entered the theatre.
Then, you would walk inside into the inner lobby and see posters and maybe
lobby cards of comming attractions on those walls. I have a listing of over 300
Cinerama theatres on my web site at http://cinerama.topcities.com/ . I have
pictures of some of the theatres but they are mostly of the front, auditorium
or projection room. Not many pictures were taken of the lobby because it was a
pretty boring area of the theatre. I did find a few pictures of lobby cards at
these theatres (see below)
http://cinerama.topcities.com/town.htm - under the marquee
http://cinerama.topcities.com/ctcolonial.htm - first picture in the foyer
http://cinerama.topcities.com/ctwarner.htm - picture below the text "Picture
below from the March 17, 1965 issue of Motion Picture Herald magazine"
I have sold most of my Boxoffice magazines on EBAY but, I'll check to see if
the remaing ones have pictures of lobby cards in the theatre.
Thanks,
Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughn K. Mann
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:52 PM
Subject: [MOPO] LOBBY CARDS IN THE LOBBY............
Hi Folks,
As I was going through a bunch of old photographs today, I came across the
photo that is linked below. I remember someone on MOPO, some time ago, asked if
anyone could show how lobby cards were display in the theatre's of old. Well,
this is the Outer Lobby of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire, It had
marble floors and brass rails. Still up and operating! My Dad took this picture
of one of the people that worked for him.
The left upper shows how the three sheet might be displayed (Les Girls). The 2
portable displays could be used for one sheets or lobby cards; usually one
sheets except in this case. More importantly, the upper right show a beautiful
decor gold frame which held four lobby cards on each side of a one sheet all
separated by this gold frame. Jet Pilot is "Coming Soon" The frame has locked
doors. Why, I don't know.............No one knew what we know; haha
Hope some of you younger enthusiasts find this interesting and helpful.
Vaughn
Outer Lobby; Colonial Theatre, Keene, New Hampshire(1957)
<http://home.earthlink.net/~vmann1/COLONIALOL.JPG>
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