Loew's Grand Theatre

Thanks. I have send a few photos of it at the Loews duirng a number of movies in the 40-50’s. I’d really like to find it in the Loews during the Premier of GWTW. I’ll post a photo when I figure out how to do it. Looks like I have to post a link is that correct or can I copy and paste?

I just obtained a stanchion that was in the Loews Grand during the Premier of Gone With the Wind. This piece is the size of a post at the bottom of a stairwell and is in the Art Deco style. I’m looking for photos of it during the Premier if anyone can help. I do have photos and I’ll try to post for y'all. I appreciate all the info I have already gotten from the great posts

Thanks for the 2 great links Tinseltoes.

Incredible photos. Makes me sad. I use to go to the Loew’s Grand in the 70’s when they played all those black exploitation and exorcism movies. There was something special about being in that theatre. Of course it hadn’t been restored and was going down hill, but even a marginal movie playing there felt like an event of some kind. What a shame the city of Atlanta couldn’t see the specialness in that theatre. They destroyed another movie palace around the same time called the ROXY theatre. It just sickens me, even to this day.
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Great photos Alonzo, the first photo looks like the World Premire of Gone With The Wind,my grandmother was there that night, she also bought a brick from the building when it was razed,I wish I knew what happened to it.

The lobby and the topless go go might have been in bad shape after the fire, but judging from those photos, the auditorium itself appears to have been in decent condition.

Atlanta, Ga.: Jan. 31, 1978 – A passer-by pauses in front of the burned out shell of Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta Tuesday morning after the theater was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. The movie ‘Gone With the Wind’ premiered at the theater in December, 1939 and a street adjacent to the theater was named Margaret Mitchell Sq. in honor of the author. ( 1978

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@ChrisD, I believe it was intentional. Atlanta has very little regard for it’s history or preservation.
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Thanks Mike, My Grandmother had a brick from the building she bought after it was torn down after the fire,she attended the “World Primier” of Gone with the Wind in 1939,ture story,wish I knew what happened to it.

Too bad there are not more photos.

Lost Memory, thats some funny stuff, in this day of politically correctness I am glad that I did not have to install the letters on that marquee in Atlanta,they did not even let the black actors in “Gone with the Wind” at the “ World Premier” in 1939 as posted above.If there were any protests it only helped at the box office.People got to see what was so bad about the movie.Thanks to the protesters.I worked one movie at the LOEWS CRESCENT that was protested in Nashville, Tennessee. An Al Pacino movie" Crusing"A local preacher was shown on the local news opening night, the next week we were swamped, until it died off it was a pretty bad movie.

“Someone once said that ‘growing up in Georgia is like watching your past being hauled away in a dump truck’.

Sad but true."

That’s a quote from Doug Monroe’s column “The Monroe Doctrine” in ATLANTA MAGAZINE, for May, 2003. Let me urge you to look up the issue at the library and read the entire piece. He really sums up the dilemma of living in what he accurately calls “a temporary town”. Atlanta has sacrificed much of its character for dubious attempts at achieving progress. The results have sometimes been questionable, at best.