March 14, 2026
Tag: Theatre Postcards
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Mystery Card #5
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Help us solve this mystery. It’s opening night at the Glen Theatre. The house is full, the people are waiting for the lights to dim. It’s all happening at 34th Avenue and Boulevard. The mystery is we can’t find the city. Good luck.
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A Postcard History of the Hippodrome
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Conceived by the creators of the Luna Park amusement area at Coney Island, and constructed in 1905, the Hippodrome Theatre for a time was the largest and most successful theater in New York.
Past Article
January 26, 2020 No Comments
At age eighteen, Andrew served, with the rank of private, as a bugler at the first battle of Manassas. He moved up quickly, and by July 1861 was a musician in Virginia’s 30th Regimental Band, and then on June 1, 1862, he was promoted to principal musician. He distinguished himself as a composer of dozens […]