The Orpheum shared this photo on Instagram, offering glimpse of what the back of the theater looked like before the R and O were painted over — a result of Kerasotes taking over operations from Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) — and it faded into what we see now (pictured below):
Photo from Wikipedia Commons
You can read a bit of the theater’s history here and here.
Top photo from Orpheum’s Instagram
