After The Final Curtain: Inside America's Historic Movie Theaters
WEBMar 14, 2017 · After The Final Curtain: Inside America's Historic Movie Theaters. More: Reel Places. By: Jared Foretek. Matt Lambros. Brooklyn's Kings Theatre opened in 1929. After decades of neglect, it was restored and reopened in 2015 as a performing arts space.
Stunning Photos of Old Movie Theaters Across the United States
WEBApr 8, 2017 · The historic movie theater, which opened in 1926, opened the photographer's eyes to a world of cinemas that were slowly dying off. Now, he works with the arts organizations who are trying to revitalize these spaces, as well as private owners, who open the doors and allow him to document the current state of these marvelous buildings.
American Movie Palaces: 50 Living Relics of U.S. Film History
WEBMay 10, 2016 · 711 N. Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602. Built in 1926, this theater was the first commercial building in Tampa to offer air conditioning. Its interior boasts a Mediterranean courtyard and a...
14 Historic American Theaters - Architectural Digest
WEBJan 1, 2015 · The Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, originally opened as a Loew's State movie palace in 1928, and the silent movies it showed were accompanied by a $90,000 Robert...
Eight Historic Movie Theaters With Interesting Second Acts
WEBJan 7, 2022 · Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. In 2005, French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre flew to Detroit, Michigan, to document what they called “the ruins and the archetypal buildings of a...
Vintage Photos of Movie Theaters in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s ...
WEBJan 4, 2024 · The first permanently built movie theater was Tally's Electric Theater, which opened its doors on April 2, 1902, in Los Angeles, California, the Times Union reported. By the early 20th...
Photographing the Afterlives and Second Acts of America's Movie …
WEBOct 21, 2019 · These movie palaces were fixtures of American cities large and small for the first half of the 20th century, providing suitably wondrous escapist backdrops to the celluloid fantasies of their...
From reels to ruins: See inside America’s crumbling movie theaters
WEBJan 25, 2022 · From reels to ruins: See inside America’s crumbling movie theaters. A new photography book documents once-opulent movie theaters across America that have been abandoned or repurposed into...
Step inside one of the last remaining movie palaces in America
WEBDec 25, 2019 · The Fox was auctioned on the courthouse steps and sold to a private company for just $75,000. For the next three decades, the Fox still remained in high demand, showing hundreds of acclaimed films,...
America’s Grandest Movie Palaces Find Strange New Lives
WEBApr 24, 2019 · Between the 1920s and the 1950s, Hollywood studios built thousands of ornate movie palaces in cities across the United States. Warner Bros., Paramount, RKO, MGM, and others competed to build the...
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