Thankyou JohnMessick and Simon for your very warm welcomings!
I admire your determination, Simon! I wish I would have been able to experience “going to the pictures.” Anytime I go in to an old theater I imagine what it was like at its peak, and when the entertainment and business was at its highest.
My dream is to refurbish an old theater, but I have not decided whether I want to re-open it for movies or not. I have also considered things along the line of a book store, coffee shop, or a venue for live bands. I love going to see bands play at the Lakewood, Granada, and Ridglea theaters here in Texas. I plan on contacting those theaters eventually and possibly setting up interviews to see how they did what they did.
If I did go the movie route, I very much agree with you on showing the older classics, or the movies that have cult followings. At the Inwood theater, where I used to work, they show midnight movies on Fridays and Saturdays and those are always classics, or biggies. Everyone seems to love coming to see those movies on the big screen and that is usually when the main auditorium gets the fullest!
I will surely stay in touch. Thank you so much for your advice!
Thankyou JohnMessick and Simon for your very warm welcomings!
I admire your determination, Simon! I wish I would have been able to experience “going to the pictures.” Anytime I go in to an old theater I imagine what it was like at its peak, and when the entertainment and business was at its highest.
My dream is to refurbish an old theater, but I have not decided whether I want to re-open it for movies or not. I have also considered things along the line of a book store, coffee shop, or a venue for live bands. I love going to see bands play at the Lakewood, Granada, and Ridglea theaters here in Texas. I plan on contacting those theaters eventually and possibly setting up interviews to see how they did what they did.
If I did go the movie route, I very much agree with you on showing the older classics, or the movies that have cult followings. At the Inwood theater, where I used to work, they show midnight movies on Fridays and Saturdays and those are always classics, or biggies. Everyone seems to love coming to see those movies on the big screen and that is usually when the main auditorium gets the fullest!
I will surely stay in touch. Thank you so much for your advice!
Chelsea
I didn’t take these, but here are a few more.
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I have many more pictures of the inside, but this is the only one I have scanned so far.
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The light fixture and mural on the ceiling in the lobby.