Blog Post 2 - Resubmission

One of the cool unique feature of the Hollywood theatre was the fact that it had a mild used design, for example it had multiple inspirations that were put in the theatre in order to be built, talking about the composition of the theatre this also had apartments above or alongside the theatre space, this was something common for the architecture back in that specific time. The building itself had Spanish architectural influences a style that was pretty popular throughout the cinema world at that time, things like decorative arches, ornamental details and atmospheric lightning have the audiences the sensation that they are walking in a new world where they can relax and enjoy movies. This theatre was perfect for not only watching movies but people came here to socialize and to create new connections and friendships.

The construction of the theatre ended up costing somewhere around 90k dollars, in some occasions 3.000 people would get around the cinema for opening festivities even though the theatre would only seat about 500-550 people. When the movie "the general" was played it was something really bug because the movie was actually filmed in Oregon, people loving that movie. The theatre survived through many phases through the Work War 2 and through the rising of the television at the begging of 1950's, in the next couple of year single screened theaters struggled financially as the suburban complexes became more popular, just because of this Hollywood theatre faced the same problem and eventually they closed it in may 1971 and it was demolished shortly afterwards.

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