French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre spent over a decade photographing former movie palaces like San Francisco's old Alhambra Theater, which has been converted into a gym.
When it opened in 1925, the Uptown Theater was Chicago's largest theater. Closed in 1981, it is currently awaiting restoration.
Berkeley, California's 1,400-seat Rivoli Theater opened in 1925 and closed in the 1950s. It has subsequently been converted into various supermarkets.
The 1,000-seat Fox Theater in Inglewood, California, opened in 1949 and served as a major site for Hollywood movie premieres in the 1950s. It closed in 1984 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
New York's Gotham Theater showed movies from the 1920s to the 1950s and was subsequently converted into a disco and now a supermarket.
San Diego's Loma Theater operated from 1945 to 1987 and has now been converted into a bookstore.
Brooklyn's 4,100-seat Paramount Theater showed movies and hosted artists such as Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra before closing in 1962. It's now used as a gym by Long Island University.
French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre captured this image of Long Branch, New Jersey's Paramount Theater before it was demolished in 2017. Since closing in 1959 it had been used as storage for a paint company.
The 3,600-seat Loew's Palace Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was once the largest theater in the state. It opened in 1922 and closed in 1975 after a period of showing adult films.
Proctor's Theater in Troy, New York, opened in 1914 and was designed to resemble a medieval cathedral. The theater closed in 1977 and has been the subject of multiple failed renovation attempts.
The RKO Flushing Theater in Queens, New York, opened in 1928 with nearly 3,000 seats. It was divided into three screens in the 1970s and closed in 1986.
The Spooner Theater in the Bronx was opened in 1910 by stage actress Cecil Spooner and taken over by Loew's Theater Company in 1913. It operated until the 1960s, when it was converted into a series of clothing and furniture stores. The auditorium was gutted in the mid-2010s.
Philadelphia's Uptown Theater opened in 1929 and later became a major venue for African American performers such as James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and the Supremes. In 2002 it was purchased by Uptown Entertainment and Development and is awaiting restoration.
The 1,300-seat Uptown Theater in Racine, Wisconsin, opened in 1928 and closed in 1959. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The 1,000-seat State Theater in West Orange, New Jersey, opened in the early 20th century and was later converted into a school bus depot.
0 comentários:
Postar um comentário