TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naylor,David
TI  - American picture palaces: the architecture of fantasy 
SN  - 0442238614 :
AV  - NA6846.U6 N39 1981
U1  - 725/.822/0973 19
PY  - 1981///
CY  - New York
PB  - Van Nostrand Reinhold , 
KW  - Motion picture theaters
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index;  Include bibliography; Contents:

Photo Credits

Acknowledgments

Preface

Setting the stage

The age and the movies

Ancestral Original

The Palace Architects

A matter of Taste

The Building Program

The First Palaces

Broadway, The loop,and Beyond

The Old Guard

Fantasyland

Changes in the Weather

The Exotics

Master in Maturity

Years of Transition

Art Deco Giants

Art Deco in Decline

Lost and Found

Paved into Oblivion

An End to the Slaughter

The rescue Continues

Transformations 1 : Religious Ties

Transformations 2: Athletic Conversions

Transformations 3: Commercial Redevelopment

The case for Preservation

Appendix of Theaters

Bibliography

Index


N2  - The history of American movie theaters focusing on the larger, more ornate ones exploring both their facades and their interiors and emphasizing their ultimate fate
ER  -