Showplace Of The South
by Ken Johnson
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Title
Showplace Of The South
Artist
Ken Johnson
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The Alabama Theatre is a movie palace in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theater for the southeastern region of the United States. Seating 2,500 people at the time, it was the largest in the Birmingham Theatre district. The district was once home to a myriad of large theaters that featured vaudeville, performing arts, nickelodeons, and large first-run movie palaces. The Alabama is the only district theater still operating today. Built to show silent films, the Alabama still features its original Wurlitzer theater organ. Other than the Alabama, the Lyric Theatre is the only theater still standing in the district.
The Alabama and its historic organ were added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 15, 1977 and to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1979.The theater has been surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey on several occasions, the last time being in 1996. (Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Theatre)
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December 29th, 2013
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Debra and Dave Vanderlaan
What a great capture and subject Ken! We added our Like! Celebrate life, Debra and Dave
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