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In February 2018, Plaza Theatre Company moved from 111 South Main St., Cleburne, Texas to their new facility called Dudley Hall (located at 305 S. Anglin St., Cleburne, Texas). [6] The main street location now houses Plaza Jr., where young performers solely act in productions. Box office hours are from 10 am to 6 pm daily except Sunday. [7]
By then more than thirty local theaters belonged to the Skouras Brothers Co. of St. Louis. The biggest moment for the Skouras empire came when their dream of building a world-class movie palace in downtown St. Louis was grandly realized in 1926 when the $5.5 million Ambassador Theatre Building opened. The Ambassador Theatre operated through the ...
The first such theater, the Cooper Theater, in Denver, featured a 146-degree louvered screen (measuring a massive 105 feet by 35 feet), 814 seats, courtesy lounges on the sides of the theater for relaxation during intermission (including smoking facilities), and a ceiling which routed air and heating through small vent slots in order to inhibit noise from the building's ventilation equipment.
Wehrenberg's Cinema Four Center in St. Charles was the first multiplex in the St. Louis area. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the circuit started building megaplexes of ten or more screens. Wehrenberg also expanded outside the St. Louis area. New theaters opened their doors to guests in Springfield, Osage Beach and Cape Girardeau, MO.
A jury found a St. Louis rapper not guilty of murder after the 19-year-old claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the driver of the Jeep that was following him on his minibike.
As early as January 1925, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentioned plans for a 22-story office building containing a Skouras Brothers theater. The entire structure was to cost $2.5 million. What was eventually constructed was a 17-story building, with a 3,000-seat theater—designed by Rapp & Rapp—occupying the first six stories.
The Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza St. Louis is a historic hotel and apartment complex located at 212 N. Kingshighway Boulevard in the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri. It consists of two buildings - the Chase Hotel, built in 1922 by developer Chase Ullman, [ 1 ] and the Art Deco -style Park Plaza tower, built in 1929 and today housing ...
In 2003, a Cine Capri-style auditorium was built as part of the Scottsdale 101 theater complex in Phoenix. The 568-seat auditorium had the largest regular movie theater screen in Arizona at over 70 feet (21 m) wide by 30 feet (9.1 m) high, and a 40,000 watt / 150 speaker Digital sound system.