Double Feature Saturday by costapanos
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The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. The theater features neo-classical Greek/Assyrian style architecture and generally screens films made between the 1920s and 1960s. Often an entire month is devoted to film festivals for various genres, directors, and actors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, and Cary Grant.
Designed by architects Weeks and Day, the theater was originally opened in 1925. In 1987 was purchased and restored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It is currently operated by the Stanford Theatre Foundation, led by David Woodley Packard, the son of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard. The Stanford Theatre frequently accounts for as much as twenty-five percent of all classic film attendance in the USA.
Comments (2)
We lost our 'serious cinema'. Great to have ome where you are.
WOW! Chicago has a few of these left, but not many. I love seeing things like this. I tend to find myself looking at image and finding myself reminded of things I've read over the years: particularly science fiction and fantasy stories and I have to say that this particular shot made me think of the William Gibson short story The Gernsback Continuum in which he looks (fictionally) at "Classic" American architecture (movie theaters, back-country filling stations that look as if they were built by Ming the Merciless, and other "futuristic" things.) This fits perfectly with that as I can see worlds merging in this shot. There's the world that built this theater and there's the world that's not maintaining it. I love seeing hints and whispers of stuff like that in photography, and I love the candycane colors dominating this shot.