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[Plainfield Theatre (Casino Theatre; Astor Theatre), before and after remodeling, West 2nd St. and Park Ave., Plainfield, New Jersey] / AFD 1922. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Plainfield Theatre (Casino Theatre; Astor Theatre), before and after remodeling, West 2nd St. and Park Ave., Plainfield, New Jersey] / AFD 1922., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Plainfield Theatre (Casino Theatre; Astor Theatre), before and after remodeling, West 2nd St. and Park Ave., Plainfield, New Jersey] / AFD 1922., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Plainfield Theatre (Casino Theatre; Astor Theatre), before and after remodeling, West 2nd St. and Park Ave., Plainfield, New Jersey] / AFD 1922.

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Few theater records show one building in two states, but this 1922 ink drawing does exactly that for the Plainfield theater at West Second Street and Park Avenue in Plainfield, New Jersey. Known at different times as the Casino theater and later the Astor theater, the building appears both before and after its remodeling, so the drawing invites a side-by-side comparison of the original layout and the revised one. In the early 1920s, many small-city playhouses were reworked to show motion pictures, which meant new seating arrangements and reconfigured interiors as film began to rival vaudeville and stage performance. Because the sheet is a technical drawing, it documents the building's plans rather than its appearance from the street.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1922
SubjectsTheaters--New Jersey--Plainfield--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Plainfield--1920-1930. Remodeling--New Jersey--Plainfield--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,137 × 3,321 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210641

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