75 Abandoned Theaters from Around the U.S.A. on Buzz Feed.
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| Dream Theater, Tahlequah, Oklahoma |
One can close one's eyes and picture smartly-dressed couples and families filtering their breathless selves into these former palaces to enjoy the unique experience of being taken away from their lives in Pinoche, Nevada and Bucyrus, Ohio via the magic carpet of movies.
Remember when the advent of television had the movie industry all in a kvetch about how the idiot box would kill the movies? Well, it didn't happen, entirely, because the movies figured out a way to continue to appeal to its audience's sense of otherness. A big part of that was the building itself, palaces and shoe boxes of a grand or intimate nature which offered an experience more immediate and shared than a 19-inch Zenith could ever hope to achieve.
Now, I see these dead soldiers on the American horizon, and I close my eyes and picture those same couples and families, decked out in matching sweat suits and plopped in front of their home theaters arguing over whether American Idol is just not the same since Simon left, driving each other insane.
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