Today’s Follies commemorate movie theaters in celebration of the first movie projected onto a screen before a paying audience, which happened in a storefront theatre at 153 Broadway in New York City on this day in 1895. That 8-minute movie was a boxing match between Australian, Albert Griffiths and Charles Barnett titled “Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett.”
Loew’s United Artists Theater, Pittsburgh, PA – January 16, 1931
c. 1939
Once upon a screen... 
Simply wonderful!
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Wow! What a trip through movie Theater history. Just wonderful. Seeing inside some of them makes you realise why they were called movie palaces.
I think my favorite was the Academy, with that amazing Art Deco spiral.
Loved how the Brentwood had a baby sitting service!
Thank you so much
Thank YOU!! They were palaces and I wish more still stood today.
I am very lucky we have a theater like this where I live and that it is still running strong. Great post
Great post – what stunning cinemas! I wish more of them still existed – it’s weird how centuries old theatres are still standing, but so few movie theatres are.