California Theater – Abandoned Movie Palace

A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment. Most, but not all, theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. Some movie theaters, however, are operated by non-profit organizations or ...

Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters [Ross Melnick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. More than 100 years after the first movie delighted audiences, movie theaters remain the last great community centers and one of the few amusements any family can afford. While countless books have been devoted to films and their stars

The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family, until things turn magical. A mysterious garden in the backyard of the boy's home becomes a gateway allowing the child to travel back in time and encounter his mother as a little girl and his great-grandfather as a young man.

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Uptown Theatre (also known as Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre) is a massive, ornate movie palace located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Designed by Rapp and Rapp and built by Paschen Bros. contractors, it one of the many movie palaces built by the Balaban & Katz theatre chain run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and their partner Sam Katz.

San Diego Insider story documenting the historic 1927 California Theater. Unfortunately the grand old movie palace on 4th Avenue is abandoned and threatened with demolition.

hfleming on June 5, 2011 at 4:47 pm. I was reading an article about the demolition of the National in Westwood (sad) , and ended up finding the updated official website for the Vista and the Los Feliz 3, run by Vintage cinemas (happy).

Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater (Creating the North American Landscape) [Michael Putnam, Robert Sklar] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone.

A previously abandoned drinking-water reservoir that is simultaneously one of the most beautiful and least accessible places in Houston. It's located on a hill near Buffalo Bayou at Sabine Street ...

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