According to Ben Hall's wonderful book about the Golden Age of the movie palace titled The Best Remaining Seats, the long opening night program of the Roxy Theater featured Gloria Swanson's silent film The Loves of Sunya. Swanson was present at the grand opening and photographed in the ruins. Like Dilsey said of the Compsons, "I've seed de first en de last..I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin."
I remember that issue of Life. I always looked forward to the arrival of each week's issue of Life. Life usually had Frigidaire ads, like yesterday's 1962 ad for the Sturdy Washer. Life also had some Kitchen Aid ads, like the one showing a KD2P with the open lid shooting water 10 or 12 feet into the air. Another add showed a dish drainer full of dishes, glasses & silverware being lowered onto an electric surface unit with the question that went something like, Is This How You Would Dry Your Dishes? It touted the features of their fan-forced Flow Through Drying. My parents had subscriptions to many magazines as we were growing up. I devoured the content of all of them, especially anything appliance related.
I did not discover until the 80s what a treasure trove of Westinghouse advertising was inside the pages of The Saturday Evening Post in the 50s.
