The Grand: Before and After

posted by Patrick Crowley on May 4, 2004 at 6:17 am

BALTIMORE, MD — Ed Dobbins writes…

“These pictures are from 1940, showing how ‘grand’ the Grand Theatre was.

Even up until I saw my last movie there, Return of the Jedi, Feb 1984, the theater still looked great. They still did the whole sequence of having the curtains closed & lit up, slowly opened, then dimmed to show a cartoon, followed by the movie. Up until the end, the theater still had class.

These pictures show was once was and what could have been again."