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unusual facts about movie theatre



Kaisaniemi

As well as the park and the restaurant, Kaisaniemi has its own metro station and Kinopalatsi, the second largest movie theatre in Helsinki.

Laurier Palace Theatre fire

The Laurier Palace Theatre fire, sometimes known as the Saddest fire or the Laurier Palace Theatre crush, was a small fire that occurred in a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Sunday, January 9, 1927.


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Alexandria Township, New Jersey

Jayson Williams (born 1968), former NBA player with the New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers, who owned an estate that featured a private basketball court, a personalized movie theatre and many other features.

Batchelor Airfield

There was a hanging bedsheet and projector movie theatre, an agreeable swimming hole in the nearby Adelaide River, and a squadron store which sold any number of interesting items, acquired through questionable means or otherwise.

Daniel Pinkwater

Pinkwater also pays tribute to the Clark Theater (a repertory movie theatre on Clark Street in the Chicago Loop that changed features daily and stayed open all night), Bughouse Square, and Ed & Fred's Red Hots.

Fun in Acapulco

While exterior filming was undertaken involving every other member of the crew at various places in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis's own shots had to be taken at the Paramount studios in Hollywood, in March 1963, as he had been declared "persona non grata" by the Mexican authorities following a series of incidents which took place at the trendy "Las Americas" movie theatre in the Mexican capital during the openings of at least two of its earlier films, most notably

Granville Street

Also, Otis writes that "once dominated by movie theatres, pinball arcades, and sex shops Downtown Granville is being replaced by nightclubs and bars, as ...it transforms into a booze-based 'Entertainment District'." In April 2005, Capitol 6, a beloved 1920s-era movie theatre complex (built in 1921 and restored and reopened in 1977) closed its doors (Chapman).

Magic Valley Mall

Lamonts (closed 1996, located at the space occupied by the current movie theatre)

Maple Leaf Village

It boasted a multi-screen movie theatre, numerous attractions (through the years: That's Incredible! museum and the Elvis Presley Museum were here), countless souvenir and apparel stores, Lillie Langtry's tavern and club and, in later years, the first locale for the Canadian comedy cabaret, Yuk-Yuk's.

W. J. Lincoln

In 1908 he was manager of the Paradise of Living Pictures movie theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, and had begun to write and direct films for show in the theatre.

Whittwood Town Center

Krikorian Theatres opened a 10 screen Premium movie theatre on the back lot, which was later sold to Regal Cinemas, who closed the theatre by the mid-1990s.