The Movie Palaces of Lubliner and Trinz

The Lubliner and Trinz movie theater chain may not be as well-known as Balaban and Katz but was once the … More

Lubliner and Trinz in 1928

Lubliner and Trinz was the largest movie theater chain in Chicago as late as 1928, as you can see from … More

We recently acquired this March 1921 brochure from the first Clark Theater in Chicago, located on Clark Street near Wilson … More

The old Windsor Theatre, which was located at 1225 N. Clark. The film Mary Burns, Fugitive (starring Sylvia Sidney and … More

Here’s something for our “matchless friends.” In our last post, we uncovered a matchbook cover that advertised the Clark and … More

Movie theaters in the 1930s had various clever ways of advertising themselves. Here is a matchbook cover, advertising both the … More

Following up our previous post The First Clark Theater (February 8, 2019), here is another advertising postcard from that venue, … More

I recently purchased an old advertising postcard on eBay, dating to October 1913. Until I saw this, I had no … More

Here are five more Clark flyers we recently acquired. They are from the period 1937-38, and are presented here in … More

CHICAGO, ILL., November 20, 1952: Annette Cory, a former Chicago school teacher, hands her pet pigeon, “Merry Garden,” to Bruce … More