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This is why I love my customers. I had a client ask me to change my Punk Kilt into a mini-skirt and do it in dark purple and it was a blast to create. She also requested non-real leather and so all the accents are done in a faux leather.
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"The customers pay before they even see what they're paying for! There'll be money in that business." -Barney Balaban
opened with "The Lady Who Lied" starring Lewis Stone, Virginia Valli and Nita Naldi, 18 August, 1925
$4MM, 4,381 seat "Spanish Mexican Renaissance" movie theater designed for Balaban and Katz chain by brothers C.W. (1861-1927) and George L. (1878-1949) Rapp -- Rapp and Rapp, Chicago • actually a complex of 4 bldg. sections • client requested a design that would "leave patrons awestruck" • 8-story terra cotta facade • one of world's largest air conditioning systems • 10,000 pipe Wurlitzer organ • largest single-screen theater ever in Chicago • current marquee dates from 50s • "grande window" above marquee originally outlined by light bulbs set at 1' intervals
opening day marquee read "ONE OF THE GREAT ART BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD - AN ACRE OF SEATS" -- over 12,000 in line for tickets to first show
"Watch the eyes of a child as it enters the portals of our great theatres and treads the pathway into fairyland. Watch the bright light in the eyes of the tired shopgirl who hurries noiselessly over carpets and sighs with satisfaction as she walks amid furnishings that once delighted the hearts of queens. See the toil-worn father whose dreams have never come true, and look inside his heart as he finds strength and rest within the theatre. There you have the answer to why motion picture theatres are so palatial. Here is a shrine to democracy where there are no privileged patrons. The wealthy rub elbows with the poor -- and are better for this contact." -George L. Rapp, architect
"Here is the Uptown Theatre. It is beyond human dreams of loveliness, rising in mountainous splendor, achieving that overpowering sense of tremendous size and exquisite beauty-a thing that comes miraculously seldom." -Balaban & Katz Magazine, Aug. 17, 1925
"Eclipsing in size, splendor and impressiveness anything that has been built in the last few years of hectic theater construction, this new house is not only beyond doubt the most gorgeous movie palace in the world, but is so far above its neighborhood that the North Side will be years before it is worthy of it." -Variety
not a big money-maker for Balaban & Katz • stage shows added, then cut • to raise cash, sold off the Wurlitzer and about 100 original oil paintings that were part of the decor • purchased by American Broadcasting Co., 1969, became part of Plitt Theatres chain • closed, 1981 • several plans for restoration and conversion to music venue have fallen through but efforts to save the Uptown continue
Barney Balaban (1887-1971) later became president of Paramount Pictures • actor/producer/director Bob Balaban (b. 1945) is nephew of Barney and Abe Balaban
home page • Uptown, World's Largest And Finest, Opens -Chicago Evening American, 18 August 1925 • Uptown Theatre -Jazz Age Chicago • Uptown Theatre: A Glorious Sanctuary for Some -Chicago Sun Times (Buried Chicago) • Sleeping Beauty -Chicago Tribune • video (25:58): Uptown: Portrait of a Palace (2006) • Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago landmark, 1991 • National Register #86003181, 1986 • NRHP nomination form • Uptown Historic District National Register ##00001336, 2000
This is why I love my customers. I had a client ask me to change my Punk Kilt into a mini-skirt and do it in dark purple and it was a blast to create. She also requested non-real leather and so all the accents are done in a faux leather.
There seem to be tons of compass roses in NYC parks. This is something of which I aprove whole-heartedly. This nice example is just inside the entrance to McGolrick Park.
Shannon @ Mums Custom Tattoo
1837 Garnet Ave
San Diego, CA 92109
Custom designed colored compass tattoo