Comments from kencmcintyre

This photo is a Rialto theater in Florida. There is a vague resemblance to the old picture posted by Lost Memory, but the top of the buildings don’t match. This Rialto may be a new building designed to look like a classic theater:
http://tinyurl.com/ns368

I can’t tell if this is the Wintergarden – the adjoining building appears different than the one on the webpage:
http://tinyurl.com/ph7kj

Here is a recent photo:
http://tinyurl.com/py67h

Here is another pre-restoration photo:
http://tinyurl.com/zef27

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/jf6d3

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/f7yfz

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/eo2tj

Here is an article concerning the restoration efforts in 2002:
http://tinyurl.com/lrz2k

Let’s try that again:
http://tinyurl.com/g2ulj

Here is a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/hu3jj

Here is a recent photo:
http://tinyurl.com/k8cnp

From Martin McCaffery’s website:

ARLINGTON:

The last surviving, operating theater of the Northern Virginia Neighborhood Theaters. Now a Pub and Cinema. This was the theater in which I learned to operate 35mm projectors. Simplex E-7’s with Magnarc Carbon Arc lamphouses, which most of their theaters used. It didn’t seem like such a big theater when I worked there, but theaters seem lots smaller now. There is also plenty of office space attached to this building. The American Nazi Party headquarters was once in one of the connecting shops.

December ‘99 update: Saw a movie at the Arlington. Can’t say I like the Cinema Cafe concept as a viewing experience, but it looked alive and healthy. Focus could use some work.

MPEWDC: Originally opened as the Arlington Recreation Center and had 24 lanes of bowling on the second and third floors.