Community Theaters: “Edu-tainment” Emporiums.

HISTORICAL ROLE OF DOWNTOWN THEATERS.  Movies begat movie theaters. From the late 19thcentury until sound sprung forth in 1927, movies and movie theaters were like novelties. The Nickelodeons inhabited thousands of storefronts; the single theater in Pittsburgh in 1905 became many theaters across America by 1920s. Sound boomed forth in 1927; with it emerged “Hollywood”. The movies we still love from the “Golden Age” began to roll out of thestudios.