This is what happens if we don’t go to our local downtown movie theatres- they become Walgreens and worse!
Once Palaces, Now Chain Stores – via The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/11/14/nyregion/14marquee-ss.html
New York Times – Once Movie Palaces, Now Chain Stores Slide Show
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Mod Betty
Retro Roadmap creator, vintage road trip lover, photo taker, musician's wife and hostess with the mostess!
Anna borg
November 16, 2010 at 2:14 pmOh dear!
You don’t even want to know what has happened to the amazing palaces on Mission Street in San Francisco! Gutted and turned into parking garages, but the sign left up to taunt and rot!
Mod Betty / RetroRoadmap.com
November 16, 2010 at 2:18 pmI know, it’s a bummer isn’t it? I try to only post positive things here, but need to insert a cautionary tale once in a while.
Check out this once beautiful theater that is now a parking garage- weepworthy!
http://www.dennisnybackfilms.com/2010/02/grand-riviera-detroit-michigan/
Lori
November 16, 2010 at 9:56 pmSad, indeed! If you want to REALLY see sad, Google “Gloria Swanson Roxy Theatre”. It’s a photo of her amongst the ruins of the glorious Roxy Theatre that was in New York.
If I may revisit Betty’s awesome story about the Roxy Theatre in Northampton, PA…come and see it! You’ll fall in love!
I often wish time machines were real so I could beam myself back in time to the 30’s and visit some of the wonderful art deco palaces of yore!
Matt
November 16, 2010 at 10:21 pmWe had an great old dowtown movie house here in Middle Tennesse that sadly closed in 2007, but there is a pretty big movement to bring it back:
http://www.savethefranklintheatre.org/home.html
Lori
October 15, 2018 at 8:57 pmSad, indeed! If you want to REALLY see sad, Google “Gloria Swanson Roxy Theatre”. It’s a photo of her amongst the ruins of the glorious Roxy Theatre that was in New York.
If I may revisit Betty’s awesome story about the Roxy Theatre in Northampton, PA…come and see it! You’ll fall in love!
I often wish time machines were real so I could beam myself back in time to the 30’s and visit some of the wonderful art deco palaces of yore!
Matt
October 15, 2018 at 8:57 pmWe had an great old dowtown movie house here in Middle Tennesse that sadly closed in 2007, but there is a pretty big movement to bring it back:
http://www.savethefranklintheatre.org/home.html
Anna borg
October 15, 2018 at 8:57 pmOh dear!
You don’t even want to know what has happened to the amazing palaces on Mission Street in San Francisco! Gutted and turned into parking garages, but the sign left up to taunt and rot!
Mod Betty / RetroRoadmap.com
October 15, 2018 at 9:00 pmI know, it’s a bummer isn’t it? I try to only post positive things here, but need to insert a cautionary tale once in a while.
Check out this once beautiful theater that is now a parking garage- weepworthy!
http://www.dennisnybackfilms.com/2010/02/grand-riviera-detroit-michigan/
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