THEATERS

The single screen movie theater is slowly becoming extinct. At one time these majestic spaces were the focus of a downtown, the neon marquee inviting you into a palace filled with painstaking craftsmanship. Neo-Renaissance style theaters sat thousands and would be decorated with marble, gold paint, cupids and chandeliers hung from ornately stenciled ceilings.

The very notion of going to the theater was held in the same regard as visiting a music hall or an opera house. Much like any other industry, theaters were cyclical and the multiplex took over, showing several films at once as opposed to a single showing. These once palatial spaces were reduced to showing adult films, becoming office spaces or even parking garages in their final days.