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[Skouras Bros. Ambassador Theatre, 7th St. and Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri] / AFD 1933. – Antique Poster Print

[Skouras Bros. Ambassador Theatre, 7th St. and Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri] / AFD 1933., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Skouras Bros. Ambassador Theatre, 7th St. and Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri] / AFD 1933., 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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Step back in time with [Skouras Bros. Ambassador Theatre, 7th St. and Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri] / AFD 1933., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Skouras Bros. Ambassador Theatre, 7th St. and Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri] / AFD 1933.

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Where 7th and Locust streets meet in downtown St. Louis, the Ambassador theater once drew crowds to its marquee. This 1933 ink drawing belongs to the Architectural and Engineering collection, a body of plans that records buildings of the period in precise technical detail. The Skouras brothers, Greek immigrants who built a substantial theater business in St. Louis, ran houses like this one to make an evening at the movies feel like an occasion. The drawing shows how such a building was planned on paper before its interiors were finished.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1933
SubjectsTheaters--Missouri--St. Louis--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Missouri--St. Louis--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,299 × 4,106 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210472

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