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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 1:20:37 GMT
Some actually WERE like Palaces … some were smaller venues but still fixed up with all sorts of architectural detail. Memories of such ? Places you WISH that you had seen ?
NYC had many memorable theaters where movies premiered. Radio City Music Hall had a different stage show to accompany every picture and you could stay and see it all as often as you wanted for the one price of admission.  Olde timey postcard:  The lobby:  History of Radio City Music Hall |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 1:29:43 GMT
The Roxy Theatre was a 5,920 seat movie theater located at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off Times Square in New York City. It opened on March 11, 1927 with the silent film The Love of Sunya, produced by and starring Gloria Swanson. The huge movie palace was a leading Broadway film showcase through the 1950s and was also noted for its lavish stage shows. It closed and was demolished in 1960.   They also had shows and holiday extravaganzas to accompany the films. Roxy Theater History
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 29, 2020 1:37:21 GMT
Loew's Palace, Washington, DC (1918-78)   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 1:44:06 GMT
The Al Ringling Theater in Baraboo Wisconsin was featured on PBS to investigate whether to not it was the "First Movie Palace". Due to some technicality about square footage, it was not,  Built in 1915, this beautifully restored theatre is a live performance, music and film venue. Created to provide Baraboo with a multi-purpose entertainment facility, the Al. Ringling Theater Friends purchased the historic theatre in 1989.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 29, 2020 3:31:26 GMT
Sadly, the Uptown Cinema in Washington, DC closed a couple of weeks ago - not because of the pandemic either. It wasn't palatial but it was the last big theater in the area, save for an IMAX.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 29, 2020 3:49:38 GMT
My two Palaces growing up in San Antonio, Texas The Majestic Theater. Opened June 1929. Closed in 1974. Reopened as a live theater format – the San Antonio Symphony and Broadway shows. My first time to go there was for DeMille’s The Ten Commandments in 1956.   Aztec. Opened in 1926. Designed in a Meso-American style or (as Cinema Treasures puts it) a Hollywood version of it. In the lobby was a huge chandelier and large round stone altar with Native American symbols on it. Closed in 1989. Bought by the city 10 years later. Is now a retail/ restaurant space.   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 17:40:53 GMT
Graumann's Chinese Theater  Link  "The theater opened May 18, 1927, with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings."  "It has since been home to many premieres, including the 1977 launch of George Lucas' Star Wars, as well as birthday parties, corporate junkets, and three Academy Awards ceremonies.  Among the theatre's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 18:04:11 GMT
mikef6 All those little boys lined up, probably around the block, to see Davy Crocket at the Majestic ! 
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 29, 2020 21:40:18 GMT
mikef6 All those little boys lined up, probably around the block, to see Davy Crocket at the Majestic ! That Uncle Walter really knew how to make money. First, his Disneyland TV show (developed to promote the new Disneyland Theme Park and produce cash flow) gave the also-ran network ABC its first #1 series. Then he re-edited the three part Davy Crockett mini-series into a 90 minute feature that broke box office records - selling the same product twice to the same people. Sheer genius. More trivia: the Majestic is only four blocks from the Alamo where Crockett died.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2020 22:10:25 GMT
mikef6 I enlarged the picture but could not spot any coonskin caps on the boys ! It's so strange now seeing The Alamo in the middle of a city .. always pictured it as being out in the middle of nowhere... where it used to be ! When I was there, had to park blocks away … perhaps near the Majestic !
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Post by teleadm on Mar 30, 2020 17:22:51 GMT
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Post by kijii on Mar 30, 2020 17:38:21 GMT
Buell Theater, Denver, CO 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2020 4:49:21 GMT
 When it opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York, it set an all-time attendance record for a normal opening day at the theatre, with over 22,000 people attending. |
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