the Landmark Theater was always amazing for me, especially as a child. We went to a lot of shows there in elementary school ( I remember going to Pippy Longstockings the night after a Marilyn Manson concert took place and being afraid of what we would find there ^_). The theater seems so enormous even now that I’m grown (well, 18 is kind of grown), but it seemed as large as the world itself as a mystified 1st grader. I also had the opportunity to perform there several times, and being on the stage is an experience in and of itself. The decor is fantastic with the cherubs and other mystical creatures, and there’s something to examine everywhere that you look. It is fabulous that the Landmark is considered a landmark and will be preserved for future generations of wide eyed children to take a glimpse into the great days of the enormous movie house.
I just discovered the sad tale of the granada theater while googling the Styx album Paradise Theater (it was one of the first hits).
It is sad that such wonderful buildings can be destroyed in the name of “progress and modernization."
In my hometown of Syracuse NY, we have (or had) several buildings designed by the famous architect Archimedes Russell (link here- View link ) but sadly they are going the way of the Granada and so many buildings before them. When I was little I remember my mother telling me about the grandeur of them in my great-grandparents' day, but looking at them now you would have no clue. The Snowdon Hotel was once the most sought after address in the city. Now, it houses only released sex-offenders (you don’t go down into that area at night, ever). Another building, once housing a little pharmacy was bought out, left, neglected, and torn down just two weeks ago (I cried for a treasure destroyed). I am only 18, but even I know that it is so wrong for such historical treasures to be destroyed to have a pawn shop or a tattoo parlor spring up in their wake. The next thing to go could be the beautiful mansions whose neighbor hoods have fallen on very hard times.
This sort of thing should be stopped, and I hope that I’m not the only one who feels that way.
the Landmark Theater was always amazing for me, especially as a child. We went to a lot of shows there in elementary school ( I remember going to Pippy Longstockings the night after a Marilyn Manson concert took place and being afraid of what we would find there ^_). The theater seems so enormous even now that I’m grown (well, 18 is kind of grown), but it seemed as large as the world itself as a mystified 1st grader. I also had the opportunity to perform there several times, and being on the stage is an experience in and of itself. The decor is fantastic with the cherubs and other mystical creatures, and there’s something to examine everywhere that you look. It is fabulous that the Landmark is considered a landmark and will be preserved for future generations of wide eyed children to take a glimpse into the great days of the enormous movie house.
I just discovered the sad tale of the granada theater while googling the Styx album Paradise Theater (it was one of the first hits).
It is sad that such wonderful buildings can be destroyed in the name of “progress and modernization."
In my hometown of Syracuse NY, we have (or had) several buildings designed by the famous architect Archimedes Russell (link here- View link ) but sadly they are going the way of the Granada and so many buildings before them. When I was little I remember my mother telling me about the grandeur of them in my great-grandparents' day, but looking at them now you would have no clue. The Snowdon Hotel was once the most sought after address in the city. Now, it houses only released sex-offenders (you don’t go down into that area at night, ever). Another building, once housing a little pharmacy was bought out, left, neglected, and torn down just two weeks ago (I cried for a treasure destroyed). I am only 18, but even I know that it is so wrong for such historical treasures to be destroyed to have a pawn shop or a tattoo parlor spring up in their wake. The next thing to go could be the beautiful mansions whose neighbor hoods have fallen on very hard times.
This sort of thing should be stopped, and I hope that I’m not the only one who feels that way.
Molly Beth