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Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture)

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Cinema Houston celebrates a vibrant century of movie theatres and moviegoing in Texas’s largest city. Illustrated with more than 200 historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements, it traces the history of Houston movie theatres from their early twentieth-century beginnings in vaudeville and nickelodeon houses to the opulent downtown theatres built within the 1920s (the Majestic, Metropolitan, Kirby, and Loew’s State). It also captures the thrill of the neighborhood theatres of the 1930s and 1940s, including the Alabama, Tower, and River Oaks; the theatres of the 1950s and early 1960s, including the Windsor and its Cinerama roadshows; and the multicinemas and megaplexes that have come to dominate the movie scene because the late 1960s.

While preserving the glories of Houston’s lost movie palaces—just a few of these historic theatres still continue to exist—Cinema Houston also vividly re-creates the moviegoing experience, chronicling middle of the night movie madness, summer nights on the drive-in, and, of course, all the ones tasty snacks on the concession stand. Sure to appeal to a wide audience, from movie fans to devotees of Houston’s architectural history, Cinema Houston captures the bygone era of the town’s movie houses, from the lowbrow to the sublime, the hi-tech sound of 70mm Dolby and THX to the crackle of a drive-in speaker on a cool spring evening.

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