I only have two (neither exactly great.) The theater was one of the things I wanted to get more shots of, but fate intervened. There are a couple of small pics (not mine) on this page: [url]http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/southwest/arizona/aztheater/index.htm[/url], including one from 1945 that shows what the marquee looked like then. Much more ornate than the one I knew….
My pics (the thumbnails are clickable to get the full-sized photo):
The Pioneer Hotel where the fire started is the tall building to the left as you face the theater.
The entrance to the theater: the metal columns and wall skin around the poster were made of native copper (Globe’s a copper-mining town.) I love walking into a theater through a hallway like this. It really makes you feel as if you’re entering some hidden palace. You can see the box office on the left.
And this is the architect’s rendering of what the new theater will look like:
It fits the look of downtown, but, to me, it looks more like a storefront than a theater. I’m glad they saved the marquee, though.
A short update on the Globe fire, from Globe’s weekly paper, The Arizona Silver Belt: View link. I wish the online version of the story included the photos in the print version, which included one of the “old art deco mural” found when firefighters tore down a false ceiling in the lobby. Admittedly, the modern incarnation of the Globe wasn’t a glamorous movie house, but I loved it because it was the only one I personally know that was still serving its original function as strictly a movie theater. Others I’ve known — such as The Ritz in Sanford FL, The Paramount in Seattle, and The Everett Theater in Everett WA — have been restored but now serve more as multipurpose halls with only occasional films, if any. The Globe was still a thriving business; its loss leaves this pretty much isolated small mountain town and its neighbors with no indoor theater closer than Mesa, about an hour away down a mountain highway. My worst fear is that the owner replaces it with a crackerbox multiplex with screens not much bigger than a wide-screen tv.
Bad news about the Globe…. There was a fire in the building next door early this morning, and the fire dept. is saying that the theater is also a total loss. It doesn’t look too bad from outside — the marquee’s even intact — but, behind the facade, the roof is apparently gone and there’s extensive smoke and water damage. We just moved to Globe at the end of March and had only gotten to see one movie at the theater yet, but had had hopes of seeing many more over the years. i had planned to try to get some interior photos to post here, but I think I waited a little too long. Another one gone…. :(
I only have two (neither exactly great.) The theater was one of the things I wanted to get more shots of, but fate intervened. There are a couple of small pics (not mine) on this page: [url]http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/southwest/arizona/aztheater/index.htm[/url], including one from 1945 that shows what the marquee looked like then. Much more ornate than the one I knew….
My pics (the thumbnails are clickable to get the full-sized photo):
The Pioneer Hotel where the fire started is the tall building to the left as you face the theater.
The entrance to the theater: the metal columns and wall skin around the poster were made of native copper (Globe’s a copper-mining town.) I love walking into a theater through a hallway like this. It really makes you feel as if you’re entering some hidden palace. You can see the box office on the left.
And this is the architect’s rendering of what the new theater will look like:
It fits the look of downtown, but, to me, it looks more like a storefront than a theater. I’m glad they saved the marquee, though.
A short update on the Globe fire, from Globe’s weekly paper, The Arizona Silver Belt: View link. I wish the online version of the story included the photos in the print version, which included one of the “old art deco mural” found when firefighters tore down a false ceiling in the lobby. Admittedly, the modern incarnation of the Globe wasn’t a glamorous movie house, but I loved it because it was the only one I personally know that was still serving its original function as strictly a movie theater. Others I’ve known — such as The Ritz in Sanford FL, The Paramount in Seattle, and The Everett Theater in Everett WA — have been restored but now serve more as multipurpose halls with only occasional films, if any. The Globe was still a thriving business; its loss leaves this pretty much isolated small mountain town and its neighbors with no indoor theater closer than Mesa, about an hour away down a mountain highway. My worst fear is that the owner replaces it with a crackerbox multiplex with screens not much bigger than a wide-screen tv.
Bad news about the Globe…. There was a fire in the building next door early this morning, and the fire dept. is saying that the theater is also a total loss. It doesn’t look too bad from outside — the marquee’s even intact — but, behind the facade, the roof is apparently gone and there’s extensive smoke and water damage. We just moved to Globe at the end of March and had only gotten to see one movie at the theater yet, but had had hopes of seeing many more over the years. i had planned to try to get some interior photos to post here, but I think I waited a little too long. Another one gone…. :(