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[Plaza Theatre (Poli's Theatre), Fairfield Ave. near railroad station, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920. – Vintage Poster

[Plaza Theatre (Poli's Theatre), Fairfield Ave. near railroad station, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Plaza Theatre (Poli's Theatre), Fairfield Ave. near railroad station, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., 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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A window into the past: [Plaza Theatre (Poli's Theatre), Fairfield Ave. near railroad station, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Plaza Theatre (Poli's Theatre), Fairfield Ave. near railroad station, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920.

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The Plaza theater on Fairfield Avenue, near Bridgeport's railroad station, was also known as Poli's theater, and this ink drawing records the building from 1920. Sylvester Z. Poli ran a vaudeville and film circuit across Connecticut and neighboring New England states, and his houses drew audiences from the city's busy streets and rail traffic. The drawing dates from a period when motion pictures were rapidly replacing live vaudeville as the main draw in American theaters, which makes a 1920 plan of a combined house especially useful for studying how such venues were laid out.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1920
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,110 × 3,329 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210659

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