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The Tower Theatre, built in 1938, is a Sacramento, California landmark [1] and the oldest remaining, continuously running picture palace. [2] [3] The theater was designed by California theater architect William B. David in the Streamline Moderne style of architecture. [4] [5] The original owner was Joseph Blumenfeld, a second generation theatre ...
Tower Park was initially very successful as the quality of its attractions and free parking proved popular. The original attractions included a 10-screen UCI cinema, Megabowl (a 30-lane bowling alley), Ice Trax skating rink, Splashdown Waterpark and an 1,850-capacity nightclub called The Venue , which became one of the leading ‘ superclubs ...
Metropolitan Theatres was founded by Joseph Corwin in 1923. [2] At the time, the Corwin family operated almost every movie theater in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, the city's premiere theater venue until Hollywood was built up in the 1920s and 30s.
I lived in NYC for three years and visited many of the spots featured in "Home Alone 2." Scenes from the 1992 movie look similar to NYC today. Some places, though, closed or never existed.
The cinema is situated at the corner of Tufnell Park Road and Holloway Road. It was designed by C. Howard Crane, an American architect resident in London in the 1930s. It was a project of Hyams and Gale, who also built Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London, and is similarly large, originally seating 3,006 in one auditorium.
The Tower was the first theater designed by architect S. Charles Lee. [3] Seating 900 on a tiny site (50 feet wide by 153 feet long [ 5 ] ), replacing the 650-seat 1911 Garrick Theatre, [ 6 ] it was designed in powerful Baroque Revival style with innovative French , Spanish , Moorish , and Italian elements all executed in terra-cotta . [ 3 ]
The Tower Theater, built in 1927, was opened the following year by John H. McClatchy as one of Upper Darby Township's first movie houses. Located just outside the city limits of Philadelphia, the theater thrived in the busy area that was once the most highly traveled route to Center City from the west. In its early years, Tower Theater showed ...
The Tower Theatre for the Performing Arts is a historic Streamline Moderne mixed-use theater in Fresno, California. Built in 1939, it opened to the public on December 15, 1939, under the management of Fox West Coast Theater Corporation .