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The Grand: Before and After
posted by
Patrick Crowley
on
May 4, 2004 at 9:17 am
BALTIMORE, MD — Ed Dobbins writes…
“These pictures are from 1940, showing how ‘grand’ the Grand Theatre was.
Even up until I saw my last movie there, Return of the Jedi, Feb 1984, the theater still looked great. They still did the whole sequence of having the curtains closed & lit up, slowly opened, then dimmed to show a cartoon, followed by the movie. Up until the end, the theater still had class.
These pictures show was once was and what could have been again."
Comments (1)
The one thing that I noticed right away on the auditorium shots was the similarities in the seats. Musch like the larger old neighborhood houses in St. Louis the padded backs on the seats only went a little over halfway down from the back and then they had just the wooden back with no padding. These are some great pictures and I have thoroughly enjoyed the views. Seems we must have seen the same movie about the same time. When visiting faily in Baltimore in 84' we saw “Return of the Jedi” at the Grand. The Grand remined me a lot of the Granada in St. Louis.