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The Atlanta Limelight opened in February 1980. It was housed in a strip mall at the former site of the Harlequin Dinner Theater. The Limelight in Atlanta was a high-profile Euro-style night club designed and built in partnership with a certain Guy Larente from Montreal, Quebec who helped in the build of the Limelight series. The Limelight in ...
In 1983, movie theatre entrepreneur George LeFont bought the theatre and renovated the 1000-seat space by converting the balcony area into a second auditorium. [3] The LeFont era witnessed an influx of independent, foreign, and art-house movies that would become the norm from 1983 to the present.
Gatien and the histories of his clubs are discussed at length in the book The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, by Anthony Haden-Guest.Haden-Guest's book chronicles the history of New York nightlife and all the significant people and events that impacted its evolution from Studio 54 through to the days of Club USA, The Limelight, Palladium, and Tunnel.
The 1 acre (0.40 ha) of land in downtown Atlanta on which the theater would eventually be built traded hands several times throughout the late 1800s before it was sold to Asa Griggs Candler for $97,000 on November 30, 1909. [2] Candler sold the land on April 17, 1911, to brothers Forrest and George W. Adair Jr. for $120,000. [2]
The Roxy Theatre was a movie palace in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] It was notable for showcasing the original Atlanta runs of such films as Spartacus , the 1962 The Music Man , the Technicolor Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando , and My Fair Lady .
Loew's Grand Theater, originally DeGive's Grand Opera House, was a movie theater at the corner of Peachtree and Forsyth Streets in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It was most famous as the site of the 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind , which was attended by most of the stars of the film.
Movie Premiere at the Rialto - 1940. In the fall of 1916, [2] a 925-seat theater, the Southeast's largest movie house, opened in the Central Business District (and the original theater district) of Atlanta. The theater was named the "Rialto," which is defined as an exchange or a marketplace.
The Tara Theatre was opened in June 1968 by Loew's Theatres.It embodied the modernist architecture popular at the time. Originally called Loew's Tara, the theater's name memorialized the fictional Tara plantation, home of the O'Hara family in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind.