Poster Parade at the Heavenly Stanford Theater

Taking the Caltrain up to San Fran and back from my current deployment in San Jose yielded a terrific find once I stopped off at the Palo Alto station and ran into this:
    On the one hand, I immediately felt I was facing a glass half-full, as after reviewing the April-May list of programs it pained me to see many treasures to be missed unless I win the lotto tomorrow and can move to Stanford the same day. How does a double bill of the 1932 classics "Love Me Tonight" and "Trouble in Paradise" sound? Perfect, to me. There's plenty more of the same, with only a handful of movies I'd be willing to miss if I lived in the area.

    However, peering into a side window just past the front entrance, my jaw dropped substantially lower as I viewed a cavalcade of gorgeous original poster art that must have set the theater back a national deficit or ten. I went back to the lobby to ask if indeed the room full of posters was connected to the theater. I found out it was, and I would have paid double or triple the $7.00 entrance fee to get a closer gander at them. Here are some of my favorites (note: I took many of these pictures at an angle, in an attempt to avoid glare from my flash and the multitude of chandeliers hanging throughout the splendorous 1925 theater:

    Is this from To Have and Have Not or Key Largo? Who cares about the movie, I'll just stare at this for an hour or two.

   Another Bogie hangs over the popcorn counter (large popcorn + large soda = $4.50):


Shirley Temple overlooks the staircase to the balcony:


I always wanted to be Ronald Colman, so I could look like this and have that voice:


At least I'll get to see this one before I leave San Jose:

Here is a nice sample of some of the other cinematic art to be seen at the Stanford: