movie palace

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Quentin Tarantino, who also owns the New Beverly, rescued the 100-year-old Vista Theatre, located at the border of Los Feliz and East Hollywood, while Netflix purchased the 101-year-old Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood’s first movie palace.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Now, "it's a brand new old movie palace, if that's not a contradiction in terms," Nicita added.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2023

Originally built as a movie palace and vaudeville playhouse, it suffered the fate of many once-grand cinemas, as moviegoers fled downtowns for the suburbs.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023

“It’s not just an arts center, it’s a revival,” one of the Atlas’s founding board members, Phyllis D. Thompson, told me in 2005, as the redevelopment of Atlas, a former movie palace, was underway.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Fifty cents would be a lot to pay for a matinee, but the Egyptian Theatre was new, a lavish movie palace, and it had an exclusive on the picture.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu