Talk:Consolidated Edison Building

Turned into a cinema
The Academy of Music was rebuilt and continued to serve as an opera site until 1887, when it was turned into a movie theater

A/ Just no: there were no movie cinemas  ---  nor even movies  ---  until 1895, in Paris.

B/ From the Academy of Music page, the original Opera House descended into vaudeville in 1888, then became a venue for Victorians who couldn't get enough sermons in church;  and labor union meetings.

C/ Then finally, across the road, in 1927, an elision of around 40 years:

'''On the south side of 14th Street across from the site of the opera house, a movie theatre opened in 1927 which took the name the Academy of Music. It was built as a 3,000-seat deluxe movie palace by movie mogul William Fox, and was designed by Thomas W. Lamb. It served as a venue for rock concerts in the 1960s and early 1970s, with its name being changed to "The Palladium" by promoter Ron Delsner in September 1976.'''

Claverhouse (talk) 05:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)