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[PADDY]

This and The Astoria were my local Picture Houses as a boy. Sadly the Astoria was demolished (like many old Silver Screens), but The Strand (see photos) still exists as a cinema (although a multi screen now, rather than one big auditorium).
I took these photos a few weeks ago when visiting my folks back home. I can still remember the days when they had to change the reels and the girl would come down the isle with icecream and pop corn. There was always an usher with a torch to show you to your seats. And at the end of the screening, they would always play the National Anthem and we'd all stand to attention until it finished, and wow betide anyone to leave their seat beforehand.
Those were the days [huh]

 

[flat-top]

The Lafayette Theatre in Suffern, NY. Opened in 1924 and alive and well today. They still show classic movies every Saturday afternoon with a live pipe organist playing before each show.

 

[Fletch]

Just another neighborhood picture house

The Ames Theater on Lincoln Way, Ames, IA, was in business on the same spot from 1920 to 2000, with occasional alterations (such as wiring for sound in 1927, just weeks after the rollout of the Warner Vitaphone).

The building is now an office (with a noticeable marquee).

All talking, all singing, all etc., 1930.

Gable and Turner in Honky Tonk, 1941.
Down the block at the Varsity (still going, but a shadow of its former self) it's The Thief of Bagdad.

Amother view, taken just minutes later, or before.

Oh, no it isn't. 1954.

Lincoln Way (yep, US 30) runs thru Campus Town, which old Iowa Staters call Dog Town.
Iowa State is now a mighty research university and no longer makes its own ice cream.

 

[Sydney Loren]

The Warner Grand which is still in use in San Pedro, California. It's a lot more impressive at night when there's an event going on, and it's absolutely beautiful inside.

 

[Lorena B]

Gorgeous pics guys!!!