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The Gem Theatre is a historic movie theater building located in Detroit, Michigan.Built in 1927, it shares a lobby with the older Century Theatre next door. The National Register of Historic Places listed both theatres together in 1985 and they were relocated in 1997 to prevent demolition.
The Sloans leased the theater to Detroit theater magnate George Washington Trendle, [2] and it first opened on August 22, 1935, as a neighborhood cinema. [3] When the Alger Theater opened, it was a luxury theater, and included amenities such as sound and projection equipment, seating, and air conditioning. [ 3 ]
The Grand Riviera Theater was a movie palace theater located at 9222 Grand River Avenue in western Detroit, Michigan.It took its name from Grand River Avenue. [4] It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1980, [3] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, [1] but was subsequently demolished in June, 1996. [4]
The performing arts in Detroit include orchestra, live music, and theater, with more than a dozen performing arts venues. [1] The stages and old time film palaces are generally located along Woodward Avenue, the city's central thoroughfare, in the Downtown, Midtown, and New Center areas.
The Fox Theatre is a performing arts center located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it was at over 5,000 seats the largest theater in the city.
The first movie theater in Detroit, the Casino, was opened on Monroe Avenue in 1906 by John H. Kunsky. [7] It was reputedly the second movie theatre in the world, [7] and it propelled Kunsky to a 20-theatre empire worth $7 million in 1929. [7] Later in 1906, Detroit's second movie theatre, the Bijou, opened literally two doors down from the ...
In Detroit they came from work like that. The Eastown — those were pure rock 'n' roll times." [1] The building later became home to an adult movie theatre, Detroit Center for the Performing Arts, and then a church before being abandoned in 2004. [2] In the late 1990s the building became a site for raves, before being taken over by a church ...
Built in 1903 by the Twentieth Century Association and opened on December 26, the theater was the first building in Detroit to have a building permit issued in a woman's name. During The Great Depression, the Association disbanded and the theater foreclosed. The building housed a variety of businesses over the years until it finally closed in 1978.