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Lyric Theater wall sign Bisbee Arizona 1967 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Lyric Theater wall sign Bisbee Arizona 1967 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The first Lyric Theater in Bisbee, Arizona was built-in around 1913 in Brewery Gulch. Four years later it moved into a building that had housed the... more
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The first Lyric Theater in Bisbee, Arizona was built-in around 1913 in Brewery Gulch. Four years later it moved into a building that had housed the OK Livery Stable and Feed Store.
"The Lyric was built by the Lyric Amusement Company as part of a chain of Southwestern Arizona theaters owned by John Diamos of Tucson. At one time he controlled movie palaces (as they were called) in Tucson, Bisbee, Douglas, Nogales and Tombstone. Bisbee's Lyric was the last original house in the chain."
Ted DeGrazia managed the Cine Plaza theater in Tucson in the mid 1930's and the Lyric in Bisbee for several years at the decade's end. Both theaters featured live performances as well as screening films.
Ted "designed Art Deco plaster reef plaques for the walls of the theater," but did not paint murals for the Lyric contrary to rumors.
In 1941 he traveled to Mexico and apprenticed under the extraordinary Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco.
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About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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