Now in its place on Houston between Eldreidge and Forsyth: a nine-story office building with a private dining club on the ground floor (photo below from this morning)...
I really miss the Sunshine movie theater as I used to go there all the time to see a lot of independent films and after the movie was over the director and stars would go up onto the stage for questions and answers with the audience. Great times.
This will never, ever not make me sad. What a huge loss, architecturally and historically. (BTW, discovered that Max Steuer, the lawyer who successfully defended the factory owners in the Triangle Factory Fire, apparently owned the theater for a few years when it was the Houston Hippodrome. Ironically there was a small fire in the projection booth that caused a panic and two trampling deaths; the resulting court case was the source of the Supreme Court case reference to calling out "fire" in a crowded theater. (Source: https://fortamsterdamnyc.blogspot.com/2014/03/dinner-and-movie-for-over-100-years-at.html.)
Never could figure out why this wonderful theatre could not be saved or at least have landmark status. Instead we have this visual atrocity in its place.
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That was a shame.
I really miss the Sunshine movie theater as I used to go there all the time to see a lot of independent films and after the movie was over the director and stars would go up onto the stage for questions and answers with the audience. Great times.
jeez rub it in!
The last film I saw there was The Eagle Huntress. An amazingly beautiful film. Miss that theater.
I still grieve the closing of Sunshine Cinema as I walk past it every time. Such a shame.
This will never, ever not make me sad. What a huge loss, architecturally and historically. (BTW, discovered that Max Steuer, the lawyer who successfully defended the factory owners in the Triangle Factory Fire, apparently owned the theater for a few years when it was the Houston Hippodrome. Ironically there was a small fire in the projection booth that caused a panic and two trampling deaths; the resulting court case was the source of the Supreme Court case reference to calling out "fire" in a crowded theater. (Source: https://fortamsterdamnyc.blogspot.com/2014/03/dinner-and-movie-for-over-100-years-at.html.)
Never could figure out why this wonderful theatre could not be saved or at least have landmark status. Instead we have this visual atrocity in its place.
Really miss Sunshine..should have been landmarked.
Very sad. What an eyesore on our visual landscape as well.
Crazy trivia!
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