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I was taking the previous pic of the theatre, when I saw this man walking in front of the modern, glass extension. He stopped to check his phone for a couple of minutes, right by the third of the three hanging banners, and it just felt like a pic to me, so I zoomed in and took this.
Opened as a Vaudeville venue in 1925. Evolved into a movie theatre in the 1940s until 1977. Desegregated in the 1960s. Underwent a 7 year restoration and reopened in 1984 as an arts venue. National Register of Historical Places 1977. Shreveport,Louisiana. 7.4.2013.
Built in the 1930's. The building is to be repurposed as a community event center. Kilgore,Texas. 5.27.2015
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The Crim Theater opened on June 21,1939 during the East Texas oil boom. The theater was air conditioned and showed first run movies. Construction costs were $150,000. Children could pay nine cents to spend the day watching cartoons,a news reel,a serial and two feature films. Television proved to be its demise and the Crim closed some time in the 1950s or 1960s and remains vacant. The facade was restored in 2015 and the neon sign is once again turned on nightly. Kilgore,Texas. 5.27.2015.
The one hundred year old Fox Theater opened on July 24,1917 as the Star Theater. When the interior of the theater was converted to a Spanish theme in August of 1929 the Star was renamed the Valencia Theater. The name was changed again a month later to the Fox-Valencia Theater. The theater closed in 1987. In 1992 the theater reopened after a major renovation by the Huerto Youth and Arts Foundation. I believe the Fox continues to host stage performances,movies and comedy shows today. Info from Cinema Treasures. Walsenburg,Colorado. 10.23.2017.
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1936 allenby theatre box office. now repurposed as an esso gasoline station, a circle k convenience store complete with a tim hortons coffee shop within.
The Palace opened around 1935. Not sure when it closed. It was Club Platinum in this shot, servinging beer and wine coolers. What, no Boons Farm or Ripple? Weimar, Texas. 6.23.2012.
People buying tickets at the pop-up box office in Bristo Square during the Fringe. Quick people watching shot as I was passing by on my way to another festival event myself
Fox Studio City Theatre (1938 to 1991) on Ventura Blvd, now a Barnes and Noble's bookstore, Los Angeles.
Larger is better. flickr is up to its usual oversharpening ways here and the scratches are a bit overworked in this small version.
The Vernon Plaza Theater,first opened in 1953 as a state-of-the art fully, modern movie house and was the first theater built in Texas to show 3-D movies. Constructed atop the ruins of the Vernon Opera House,the theater has had several owners and in recent years fell into disrepair. Dallas artist Stephen Taylor began extensive renovations of the theater in 2004. In late 2006,author Mark Finn and his wife Cathy,along with Stephen Ray and spouse Shara Arafat-Ray,aquired and began operation of the theater. The theater is open and shows movies daily.
The singing duo Sonny and Cher performed at the theater while touring and promoting their movie "Good Times" in 1967. Vernon,Texas is also the birth place of the legendary singer Roy Orbison......Merrrcy! Vernon,Texas. 10.22.2017.
In 1963, Elgin Park was chosen as a backdrop for a major motion picture. Way up in the township, not that far from the WLGN TV station, a series of back lots were constructed to represent the 1920's. The work continued for several months and WLGN TV was invited to do a special LIVE program to document the progress.
In this photo you can see the 'LGN TV camera mounted on the dolly that had been
pushed down the street for a pan shot.
The people of the town were more than delighted by the spectacle and a sense of civic pride swelled throughout the area.
To add to all of the excitement, Boxoffice
magazine did a cover story in their June issue, featuring not only the creation of the backlot but a sidebar story of Elgin Park itself.
To this day, people still go up to the heights to view what's left of the false front town and reminisce about watching it all happen.
Aside from the UFO crash, this was the biggest thing to hit Elgin Park.
This particular photo was taken while I was in Pittsburgh signing books.
The actual place was a former steel mill site that is now basically a desolate flattened area.
Because it is private property, I always ask permission to set up my stuff. A group of truck drivers, who were standing by their rigs, said: "they didn't give a flying _ at a rolling donut", so I took that as a YES.
When I tried to engage them in a conversation about what I was doing, there was little interest.
When I thought about it later, it must have seemed odd to them that an old man was fussing about with little buildings and cars, set on a card table in the middle of acres of a demolished steel mill.
Ya know, it is odd!
PS: You can see the scaffolding up against the building on the right.
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And a better view of the false front building:
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PPS: Here is shameless self promotion of the new Book!
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Taken at 15 Willipie Street in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
I just happen to see a photo of the marquee just before we left on a trip to Michigan which would take us right by the theater so, I insisted on making a stop there. I think it has one of the most amazing and colorful marquees I have ever seen. I'd love to shoot it all lit up some night.
Originally built as the Brown Theater and opening in 1904 as a vaudeville theater, it was renamed the Wapa theater in 1939 and had the current marquee installed. From what I could find, it showed Movies until 2007, closed briefly and has now reopened. Hopefully, it will make enough profit to keep the wrecking ball away.
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking
not me,
not me,
not me,
not me,
not me...
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The old school box office and plaza of the Tower Theater in Marysville, Ca...
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