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Commodore Theatre is an historic movie theater located at Portsmouth, Virginia.It was built in 1945 in the Streamline Art Deco style, and originally sat 1,000 people. [3] The theater closed in 1975 and sat empty until a change in ownership and extensive renovation beginning in 1987. [3]
William S. Wilder was the first manager before opening The Colley Theater (Naro Expanded Cinema) in 1936, and The Commodore Theater in 1945. Newspaper articles of the time used "theater" and "theatre" interchangeably. Pipe organ manufactured by The Robert Morton Co. Norva Concert Orchestra Director - Prof. Charles Borjes
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Bristol Mall was the only regional shopping mall serving Bristol, Virginia.It opened in 1975. Former anchors included Sears, Belk, JCPenney, and a movie theater.With Bristol being the home of country music, long before Knoxville or Nashville, for many years there had been a museum at the mall, showcasing the legacy this left to the area.
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The Whiteladies Picture House (grid reference) is a cinema on Whiteladies Road in Clifton, Bristol, England.. It was built in 1920–1921 by James Henry LaTrobe and Thomas Harry Weston (1870–1923) and opened by the Duchess of Beaufort on 29 November 1921.
The First National Bank of Bristol (1905), US Post Office-Shelby Street Station (1900), and Paramount Theatre and Office Building (1929-1930) are separately listed. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and was slightly increased in size in 2017. [1]
The Byrd Theatre is a cinema in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was named after William Byrd II, [3] the founder of the city. The theater opened on December 24, 1928 to much excitement and is affectionately referred to as "Richmond’s Movie Palace". Though equipped with a Wurlitzer pipe organ, the theatre was also one of ...