I am greatly saddened in reading about the current condition of the once magnificent United Artists Theatre in downtown Detroit. I spent hours and hours in my youth there enjoying many 70MM roadshow presentations with family and friends.
Each performance was breathtaking as the house lights would dim while the overture would play and finally, what seemed like miles of gold curtains would open wider and wider always giving a perfect presentation complete with intermission and exit music as we would leave the theatre. No previews of coming attractions, no commericals, just an entire evening (or matinee) of wonderful family entertainment in one of the finest movie palaces ever built. I live in Los Angeles now but some of my most precious memories are of that magnificant movie palace in the great city of Detroit. I only wish I had interior photos as I never did take any….they are all still in my head……but I can still see what a treature the United Artists was and will always be to me.
Douglas Hupp – Los Angeles
I am greatly saddened in reading about the current condition of the once magnificent United Artists Theatre in downtown Detroit. I spent hours and hours in my youth there enjoying many 70MM roadshow presentations with family and friends.
Each performance was breathtaking as the house lights would dim while the overture would play and finally, what seemed like miles of gold curtains would open wider and wider always giving a perfect presentation complete with intermission and exit music as we would leave the theatre. No previews of coming attractions, no commericals, just an entire evening (or matinee) of wonderful family entertainment in one of the finest movie palaces ever built. I live in Los Angeles now but some of my most precious memories are of that magnificant movie palace in the great city of Detroit. I only wish I had interior photos as I never did take any….they are all still in my head……but I can still see what a treature the United Artists was and will always be to me.
Douglas Hupp – Los Angeles