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  • <p>News article on demolition (August, 1969)</p>
  • <p>1967 photo credit Frank Empson, The Tennessean. Courtesy of the Nashville Then Facebook page.</p> <p>Nashville Fire Department firefighter Marlon Claiborne inspects the still smoldering ruins of the 1,200-seat auditorium of the 80-year-old Loew’s Vendome Theater Aug. 9, 1967. The theater was gutted and the roof caved in by flames that raged out of control from about 2 a.m. until 5 a.m.</p>
  • <p>Photo & description credit Joe Rudis, The Tennessean. Courtesy of the Nashville Then Facebook page.</p> <p>Looking over a crowd of 2,500 packed in front of the Paramount Theater on Church Street for the world premiere of “What Am I Bid?” July 28, 1967 are co-star Bill Craig, left, star Leroy Van Dyke, singer Johnny Sea and writer-director Gene Nash, all of Nashville, Tennessee.</p>
  • <p>July 18, 1966 photo & description credit The Tennessean. Courtesy of the Nashville Then Facebook page.</p> <p>Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Would you believe Metro Police Sgt. Fred Cobb? The July 18, 1966, edition of The Tennessean describes an incident during a showing of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” the previous night at Crescent Cinerama. Sgt. Cobb stopped the film midway through, confiscated a film reel and arrested the theater’s manager. That started a week of events for the controversial film.</p>
  • <p>Exterior during “Loew’s Spring Festival” (1936)</p>
  • <p>Circa 1968 photo credit Vincent Johnson.</p>
  • <p>March 13, 1953</p>
  • <p>January 27, 1930</p>
  • <p>April 17, 1925</p>
  • <p>March 28, 1929</p>
  • <p>May 24, 1934</p>
  • <p>August 30, 1929</p>
  • <p>September 29, 1949</p>
  • <p>April 7, 1943</p>
  • <p>January 11, 1934</p>
  • <p>Opened on October 16th, 1947</p>
  • <p>January 5, 1934</p>
  • <p>May 13, 1933</p>
  • <p>February 11, 1933</p>
  • <p>Advertised on October 10th, 1951</p>
  • <p>January 26, 1927</p>
  • <p>Published on April 9, 1925</p>
  • <p>April 11, 1925</p>
  • <p>Exterior view (1941)</p>
  • <p>January 8, 1927</p>
  • <p>Jumping back 66 years to September 26th, 1952</p>