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B&B Theatres Operating Company, Inc. [1] or simply B&B Theatres is a family-owned and operated American movie theater chain based in Liberty, Missouri. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1924, B&B is the fifth-largest theater chain in the United States, operating 500+ screens at 54 locations in 14 US states.
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The Paramount Theatre was built as a movie palace, during the rise of the motion picture industry in the late 1920s.In 1925, Adolph Zukor's Paramount Publix Corporation, the theater division of Paramount Pictures, one of the great studio-theater chains, began a construction program resulting in some of the finest theaters built.
The Alameda Theatre is an Art Deco movie theatre built in 1932 in Alameda, California. It opened with a seating capacity of 2,168. It was designed by architect Timothy L. Pflueger and was the last grand movie palace built in the San Francisco Bay Area. It closed in the 1980s as a triplex theatre and was later used as a gymnastics studio.
The theater that would become Fox Theater opened as Iris Theatre in 1918, after that theater relocated from 6415 to 6508 Hollywood Boulevard. The new theater, built in the Romanesque style by Frank Meline for P. Tabor , sat 1000 and was the second movie theater on Hollywood Blvd. [ 1 ]
Hollywood Theater opened on December 20, 1913, the second to open in Hollywood's emerging theater district. A 700-seat Nickelodeon, [1] it was owned by H.L. Lewis and designed in the Romanesque style by Krempel and Erkes. [2] In 1927, the theater was remodeled by Clifford Balch and in 1936, it was remodeled a second time by S. Charles Lee.
The theater's sleek Streamline Moderne ticket booth was removed when the theater was converted to retail use. [2] Cameo Theatre – Nickelodeon – Located at 528 S. Broadway, the Cameo opened in 1910 with a seating capacity of 775. Designed by Alfred Rosenheim in a Renaissance Revival style, the Cameo was originally known as Clune's Broadway.
The California Theatre of the Performing Arts or simply referred to as the California Theatre is a performing arts center in the historic Downtown area of San Bernardino, California. Originally a part of the Fox Theatre chain, it opened in 1928. It still houses its original Wurlitzer Style 216 pipe organ. [2]