TOM WALKER -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 MG>> Apparently "classic" means something different to you
than to me. :)

 MG>> If it starred Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Lawrence Olivier,
 TW> Spencer Trac
 MG>> et al it is a classic. If it was made after 1949 it's new.  :)

 MG>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find yourself in Hollywood on a
 TW> weekend
 MG>> the fully restored Grauman's Egyptian Theater shows silents on
 TW> Saturdays. Th
 MG>> is no place better on Earth to see a silent movie than the Egyptian,
 TW> built 2
 MG>> years before the Chinese (which since the sale is renamed Grauman's
 TW> Chinese)
 MG>> It's what they rightly used to call a Movie Palace. The Egyptian
 TW> doesn't hav
 MG>> movie star foot and hand prints like the Chinese does, but it has
 TW> splendor l
 MG>> you've never seen anywhere. During the restoration they refurbished the
 MG>> original pipe organ. Going to the Egyptian or the Chinese is the only
 TW> reason
 MG>> ever go to Los Angeles.  :)

 TW> I have been saddened over the Years to see those Old Magnificent
 TW> structures torn down. While not in the same class it is sad to see the
 TW> old Califronia Theatre rot away. The only bright spot for San Diego

It breaks my heart every time I pass 4th and C streets. It was a marvelous
old theater. The Egyptian at Park and University was long gone by the time
I started going to Hillcrest or North Park, but the San Diego Historical
Society has some wonderful pictures on their website. The early 20s were
very into Egyptian flavored architecture, I'm sure you have read somewhere
sometime that Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922 and that
event started the fad. If you go to East San Diego (which in the 20s was a
separate city than San Diego) there's an odd almost an obelisk shaped
building that is a bar now but used to be a pizza place and used to be
taller, if you go just south of that building on the cross street you'll
find a very old car repair shop with that Egyptian flavor.  :)

 TW> Theatres was the Restoration of the Balboa.

It's beautiful, too. Another theater that was a palace (although originally
built for live performances is the old Spreckle's theater on Broadway.

 TW> As you may know the San Deigo Organ Society salvaged one of those Old
 TW> Treatre Pipe organs that used to paly ofr Silent Fims. They wewre
 TW> insucessful in finding a place ofr it. They tried to get the old north
 TW> Park Theatre that had an orfgan pit and Pipe lofts but were
 TW> unsucessfull.
 TW> today that organ resides in a Church on Kenwood street in Spring
 TW> Valley and occasional the Organ Society shows silent movies there.
 TW> One of my Old BBS friends son plays for some of showings.

I believe I remember you talking about that before.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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