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Out of the 20,000 movie palaces entertaining America in 1920, the National Trust for Historic Preservation estimates that less than 250 remain. Up until January 2014, the Cabot maintained a grand tradition of elegant movie-going and live stage entertainment thanks to the Cabot's founding director Marco the Magi (Cesareo Pelaez, 1932 - 2012).
Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. [1] The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site [ 2 ] for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot (117,000 m 2 ) development originally slated to be complete in 2010.
The Paramount Theater (formerly known as Julia Sanderson Theater and The Hippodrome) is an historic theater located at 1676-1708 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1926 out of part of the grand Massasoit House hotel [ 2 ] at a cost of over $1 million, the Paramount Theater was the most ornate picture palace in Western ...
Plymouth Theatre (see also Original Seating). The Plymouth Theatre, originally leased by Alfred Gottesman Theatrical Enterprises, Inc., [8] is situated at the corner of Main St. and Central St. and was first opened on November 24, 1928—"Doors open at 7:00 p.m.", [1] "Curtain at 8 o'clock" [1] —according to the bill in the Evening Gazette's News Notes of Worcester Stage and Screen.
The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston.Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theater was only one of the highlights of the Hobbs Building, which also contained a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten ...
Plymouth Adventure (1952) – the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts; The Actress (1953) – set in Wollaston, Massachusetts (a neighborhood of the city of Quincy) White Christmas (1954) – set in Vermont; Seven Angry Men (1955) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Lady and the Tramp (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) Carousel (1956)
Buildings in the district include the Boston Opera House, built on the site of the city's second theater. Its entrance hall is the city's only surviving work of noted theater designer Thomas W. Lamb. Also in the district are the 1932 Paramount Theatre and the Modern Theatre. These theaters and their predecessors have displayed the gamut of ...
Its original owners, John Jentz and Charlie Zehnder, opened the drive-in on July 3, 1957. [7] It has a 100-by-44-foot (30 m × 13 m) screen, with sound provided by both an FM stereo signal [1] and the original individual monaural speakers that can be attached to a car's window. [5]