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explains how movie palaces were back in the day and how it worked out.
From the University of Virginia American Studies Program, a study of classic American movie theaters.
The movie palaces of the '20s, '30s and '40s seem unbelievably extravagant when compared with the movie houses that came before and after, but when they are contextualized within the rise of America's consumer culture and placed alongside other public buildings of the period, their extravagance becomes 'readable'.
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