Theater Homage Snoozing Drunk Pilgrim Porn House Combat Zone Boston Massachusetts 1977-2008 #4 Canvas Print

Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides.   Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.

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Not that far from the fabled Shubert Theater in Boston was that city's "Combat Zone," renown for its sleeze as was New York City's 42nd Street. While the Shubert is known as "The Little Princess," this could have called as "The Side Walk Sleep-In." The "Combat Zone" is no more as is this movie house, rendered obsolete by home video and the internet.

The Pilgrim "opened as Gordon's Olympia Theater on May 6, 1912 with photoplays and vaudeville." After a period of showing second-run motion pictures it degenerated to screening sexploitation films as did so many theaters with the great success of 1972's "Deep Throat." (Rumored to be a particular favorite of Fred Astaire.) The Pilgrim was leveled in 1996.

The streamlined ticket booth is remindful of "Art Moderne" architecture popular in the US from 1925 to the early 1940's.

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...

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