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The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, opened in 1925 as a Vaudeville venue and was nicknamed "The greatest theatre of the South" and the "Million Dollar Theatre" by its builders, Julian and Abraham Saenger of Shreveport, owners of the Saenger Amusements Company, which operated theaters throughout the American South and in Central America.
Million Dollar Theater, Downtown Los Angeles, 1917-18 [3] Otis Hoyt House, Long Beach, CA 1920; McClain House, Beverly Hills, CA 1920; Lee B. Memefee House, Hollywood, CA 1920; Grauman’s Metropolitan Theater & Office Building, Downtown Los Angeles, 1921-23 [4] Rialto Theater, Los Angeles, CA 1923 remodel [3] Lakeside Country Club, Toluca Lake ...
Theatre Palisades. Theatre Palisades, a ... the ranch house and other historic building were destroyed, ... an upscale community with multi-million dollar homes in the Santa Monica Mountains ...
The 1913 opening of the Regent Theater in New York City signaled a new respectability for the medium, and the start of the two-decade heyday of American cinema design. The million dollar Mark Strand Theatre at 47th Street and Broadway in New York City opened in 1914 by Mitchell Mark was the archetypical movie palace.
A deal for a new Myrtle Beach theater will be $30 million with interest yet a nonprofit board approved it at an eight-minute meeting in June.
In all, the city bought three Main Street parcels for the theater redevelopment in 2018 for $1 million when the project was pegged at $5.6 million. A year and a half ago, the estimate had become ...
Downtown Los Angeles's Paramount Theatre opened as Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre on January 26, 1923.The building was financed by the Hill Street Fireproof Building Company, designed by George Edwin Bergstrom with the theater and building interior designed by William Lee Woollett, all for impresario Sid Grauman, [2] known at the time for the Million Dollar Theatre and best remembered today ...