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Flight Command: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 11:25am.
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April 1941. "Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Famous theater built in 1928.
Submitted by Chris Albertson on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 3:13pm.
It looked the same twenty years later when I took this photo. Lil Armstrong was with me—her former husband, Louis had played the Regal often, as did a virtual who's who of black performers. It was here, they say, that Aretha was crowned the Queen of Soul.
Blues Landmark
Submitted by PhotoFan on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 12:54pm.
Movies were OK in 1941, but 23 years later B. B. King recorded one of the greatest live albums here.
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