75 Abandoned Theaters From Around The USA

[Earth_First]

75 Abandoned Theaters From Around The USA

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/75-abandoned-theaters-from-around-the-usa

What a shame.

[alfredo]

1. The two interior theaters look very familiar. Detroit had some

wonderful theaters. I spent many an hour in the dark in Detroit.

The most wonderful of all the theaters still exists: The Masonic Temple. It didn't have all the intricate scroll work and such, but there's a clean, stark beauty about it. It was very proper. The Chandeliers were worth the price of admission.

It was a wonderful place to hear music. Like all great halls, it is the balcony where you get the sweet sounds.

The whole building is a thing of beauty.
http://www.detroitmasonic.com/pictures.htm

[Mira]

2. I could only go a little ways...

and then I kindof broke down and had to stop.

Seeing Alfredo's post about the beauty of the Masonic Temple made me revive a bit.
Maybe you remember that a few months back I posted a pictorial essay about a Masonic Temple in Asheville in bad interior disrepair and their hopes to get it restored.
I would like so much to see it in the splendor of what Alfredo showed us is possible.

The broken theaters are spirit breaking in what they show us about the state of affairs in our nation's heart.