[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Olympia Square, Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Olympia Square, Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/21b55ca440a2-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Olympia Square, Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Olympia Square, Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928.
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Few things in this set are as specific as the location: this drawing shows Gordon's Olympia theater on Olympia Square in Lynn, Massachusetts, a shoe-manufacturing city north of Boston. Movie houses like this one were built in the 1920s as large, ornate venues, when pictures had become the city's main evening entertainment and many theaters were remodeled or rebuilt to draw bigger crowds. The drawing is an ink design record dated 1928, a useful glimpse of how a neighborhood theater was planned in the years just before sound film transformed the industry.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1928 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Massachusetts--Lynn--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Lynn--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,107 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210389 |
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