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szafman
szafman commented about Broadvue Theatre on Aug 5, 2010 at 8:07 pm

More pic’s coming to the flickr link, stay tuned…
Unforchantly in the Broadvue’s case the operators of the porn theater stole & sold pices of, and generaly disrespected the place.
For example:
They painted porn red over the white marble in the ladies room, when we stripped the paint the marble was stained pink. This was a grand lady waiting for a rescue that never truely happened. Now 25 years later, the renovation of neighborhood theaters is thr new “thing” in Cleveland, go figure.

szafman
szafman commented about Broadvue Theatre on Aug 1, 2010 at 12:38 pm

I put some interior shots on flickr, hopfully I did this right.
Here is a pic of the ceiling

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szafman
szafman commented about Broadvue Theatre on Aug 27, 2008 at 4:10 pm

I was a volenteer back during the 80’s when OBCDC was trying to renovate and have many pictures of the interior. I will be glad to upload a few when the option is turned back on. Otherwise I believe the style was Greco-Roman, but the exterior was definatly Art-Deco.
It’s seating capacity when it opened was 2100, and she first opened her doors on January 15, 1927 as a movie / vaudeville house.