Following up on our series on the Boller Brothers, this is the first of two bonus episodes that looks at a theater designed solely by Robert Boller. First up: St. Louis' Esquire.
Alas, this is the last episode of our movie palace series. We'll learn about the waning popularity of the movie palace, and look at a couple of Art Deco theatres that closed out the picture palace era.
For the fourth episode in our movie palace series, we're talking about Chicago theatre owners Balaban & Katz, and their architects of choice, Rapp & Rapp.
Getch yer glass on. Pigmented structural glass, that is. Today we're talking about the smooth, shiny stuff that bedecked main street and neighborhood theatres from the 1930s.