Mark Strand Theatre
The Strand Theatre was an early movie palace located at 1579 Broadway, at the northwest corner of 47th Street and Broadway in Times Square, New York City. Opened in 1914, the theater was later known as the Mark Strand Theatre, the Warner Theatre, and the Cinerama Theatre. It closed as the RKO Warner Twin Theatre, and was demolished in 1987. History The Strand Theatre was built in 1914 as part of the chain of movie theaters owned by the Mark Brothers, Mitchel and Moe. It cost US$1 million () to build and is believed to have been the first lavish movie palace built only to show motion pictures. It was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and served as a model for many other similar theaters built at the time. The ''New York Times'' favorably reviewed the opening of the Strand, helping to establish its importance. To manage the theater, Mitchel Mark personally hired Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel. Rothafel developed his luxurious style of presenting films at the Strand which he later perfected at ...
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Strand Theatre or Strand Theater may refer to: Australia * Strand Theatre, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia England * Royal Strand Theatre, London, demolished 1905 * Strand Theatre, London, called the Novello Theatre since 2005 United States * Strand Theatre, former movie house in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, built in 1925 * Strand Theatre (San Francisco), reopening in 2015 now owned by American Conservatory Theater, originally opened in 1917 and shuttered in 2003, in San Francisco, California * Strand Theatre (Jennings, Louisiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana * Strand Theatre (Shreveport, Louisiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Caddo Parish, Louisiana * Strand Theatre (Rockland, Maine), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Maine * Strand Theatre, Brockton, Massachusetts, site of a fire that killed 13 firefighters in 1941 * Strand Theatre (Boston), a re ...
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