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.
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