I found this paper bag folded in a stack of 78 rpm records I recently purchased at a nearby yard sale. A promotion for “Lover Come Back” starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall, it is printed on a 7½ x 10½ paper bag. Perhaps it was for a 1962 showing here at our very own RKO Palace.
This is a very funny movie, and definitely has VIP!
Sit back, enjoy the trailer and try to imagine yourself in the splendor of the RKO Palace.
Formerly located at 71 Clinton Avenue, the RKO Palace in Rochester opened Christmas 1928. Designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Graven and Mayger in the Georgian style, it was adorned with elaborate plasterwork, velvet curtains, chandeliers and gilded metalwork. It was home to the Wurlitzer 4/23 (opus 1951) theatre organ which was rescued by the Rochester Theater Organ Society and is now housed at the Auditorium Theater.
It was viewed as the most beautiful theater in our city, but in 1965 it was demolished in the name of “urban renewal”, and since then the location has been used as a parking lot.
east high, c.1905
East High School, designed by J. Foster Warner and located on Alexander Street. Opened in 1903, it served as a high school until 1959. This cyanotype dates back to around 1905.
Rochester: a City of Quality, copyright 1963. “Sponsored by the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation As a Public Service To The Community.”
Before I begin posting more photographs of family, I thought it would be nice to give a little background history of who you will be looking at. First my father’s side…
My paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1926. He was sponsored by Zweigle Brothers and worked for them for several years. In 1940 he bought a home on Garfield Street in the city of Rochester. Our family lived 3 generations in that house.
My paternal grandmother is descended from Palatine Germans who immigrated to America in the early 18th Century. They settled on the Robert Livingston Manor near present day Albany, New York and later moved to Rensselaerwyck, New York. Eventually they settled in the Penn Yan area and then Rochester in the early 20th century.
Any more detail than that and I suspect your eyes will glaze over, so I will just tell the rest of the story a little at a time with photographs.
butchers, zweigel bros., c.1930
Butchers, Zweigel Bros., c.1930
Zwigel Brothers was located at 214 Joseph Avenue. This photo was most likely taken at 212 Joseph Avenue. My grandfather is standing second from left.
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