Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
174 E. Flagler Street,
Miami,
FL
33131
174 E. Flagler Street,
Miami,
FL
33131
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Built in 1926 by Paramount Pictures Inc. and designed by John Eberson, it was the first of many Atmospheric style theatres.
After years of showing films, the former Olympia Theatre was purchased in 1970 by Maurice Gusman for the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra.
Renamed as the Maurice Gusman Cultural Center, the theater reopened in 1972. In 1975, the theatre was donated to the City of Miami and underwent a two-year renovation.
It is now called the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.
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1985 photo of the Gusman Center.
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The mezzanine of the Olympia:
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Vintage shot of the Olympia marquee circa 1928 (BEAU BROADWAY):
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How the boxoffice used to face:
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The Olympia with a name it apparently never carried.
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Here is a music video which was filmed in this majestic theater (note: song in spanish by international artist Chayanne):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJJbrBEZqy8
Here is a short ‘making of’…you can really appreciate the theater in this vid since its in glorious color.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhgPlsevzg
Enjoy!
Endangered again. Yet another unfortunate outcome of Maurice Gusman entrusting the venue to the Miami Parking Authority.
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This site has a number of photos of the theater as the Olympia as well as details of Elvis Presley’s appearance there in 1956: http://www.scottymoore.net/olympia.html
A recent photo.
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Ellegant, with its star-studded sky-ceiling, when it was a movie theater, the Olympia was the Miami counterpart of the Washington Heights RKO Coliseum. I now see the Olympia was originally a Paramount theater. It has lost much of its grandeur.