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February 1943. Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Photographs show the modern city and 'Old Town' Albuquerque." Now playing at the "Pueblo Deco" Kimo on Route 66: Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt." Acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
I could not manage to find the original movie posters shown in the picture. The ones I could find were different, but ... with (though little) room for Patricia Collinge.
It's a shame there was no room on the marquee for Patricia Collinge, who was outstanding as one Charlie's sister and another Charlie's mother in Shadow of a Doubt. Excellent movie. She was equally compelling in another film a few years earlier: The Little Foxes, also starring Teresa Wright, along with Bette Davis and other luminaries of the screen.
Can someone ID them?
[1936 DeSoto Airstream, 1939 Chevrolet (van?). - Dave]
KGGM radio (the neon sign by the window to the left), if it exists at all today, is likely relegated to a computer in a closet somewhere.
I first thought seeing this, thinking "Kino" obviously more appropriate for a cinema, but was I wrong. The Albuquerque Journal in 1927 launched a contest to name the theatre provided the entries were an "Indian word" no more than six letters in length. The winning submission was Kimo, "mountain lion" or "king of beasts" in the Tewa language of the native Pueblo.
Very few are aware what "new and efficient" windows do to old buildings. Like gouging out someone's eyes and replacing them with whatnots. At least try to emulate the original windows pane modules. But of course: "Money, you know".
Below is the same view from July of 2015.
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