Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ambassador Hotel — demolished in 2005 and replaced by a school — was once a Hollywood hotspot and home to the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub, where performers like Frank Sinatra and Judy ...
In February 2013, Regal agreed to purchase Hollywood Theaters, a nationwide chain of 46 theaters that operated from Portland, Oregon. The sale was closed on April 1, 2013. [24] In May 2017 Regal purchased the $200 million company Warren Theaters based in Wichita, Kansas. The sale included all Warren Theater locations in Wichita KS as well as ...
The River Oaks Theatre is a historic movie theater located in the River Oaks Shopping Center in the Neartown community in Houston, Texas, United States, east of the River Oaks community. [1] The theater has three projection screens ; one large screen, downstairs, and two smaller screens, upstairs.
The first Century theater was the Century 21 in San Jose, California, which opened November 24, 1964, adjacent to the Winchester Mystery House. [1] The Century 21 theater was built to showcase Cinerama type movies (the left and right empty projection booths are still present), but in fact, it showed only 70mm movies. The screen was later ...
In the 1990s, Cinemark Theatres was one of the first chains to incorporate stadium-style seating into their theatres. [24] In 1997, several disabled individuals filed a lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that their stadium style seats forced patrons who used wheelchairs to sit in the front row of the theatre, effectively rendering them unable to see the screen without assuming a horizontal ...
Kingsport Tennessee [32]-Opened 1944, [33] closed no later than 1963, [33] was a country music recording studio into the early ’90s, now a beauty salon; Las Cruces, New Mexico—Opened 1926, acquired by Fox in 1929, restored in 2005; Las Vegas [34] [35] Long Beach, California [36]-Built 1929 [37] Los Angeles
The Sugarland Express (1974 film) - partially filmed and set in Houston suburb Sugar Land; Together Brothers (1974) - filmed in Galveston, Texas; Rollerball (1975) – set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany; Futureworld (1976) – filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities and Jones Hall; Logan's Run (1976) – filmed inside the ...
The Alabama Theatre is a historic movie theater located at the intersection of Alabama Street and Shepherd Drive in the Upper Kirby district of Houston, Texas.Constructed in 1939, in the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles as a suburban theater, the Alabama primarily booked roadshow engagements through most of its history.