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Sunshine Theater
Sunshine Theater
Sunshine Theater

Sunshine Theater

Dateca. 1940
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions9 1/16 × 6 3/4 in. (23.1 × 17.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.200
DescriptionNight view of Sunshine Theater at 122 West Central Avenue on the corner of Second Street and Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The neon sign for the theater is attached to the upper floors of the Sunshine Building. The marquee over the box office and theater entrance is lit with neon and reads "Consistently the Best". The advertised film is "Young People" with Shirley Temple and Jack Oakie. Over the entrance is a banner advertsiding a Crime Series with movie posters framed all through the entrance. Pay Les sDrug Store is to the right of teh theater' entrance. Curios and novelties are to the left. A young boy sits on the base of a street lamp on the sidewalk to the lower left of the frame.
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