Coliseum Theater

The corner entrance This theater, the area's first major motion picture palace designed solely to show film, is now renovated for use as a Banana Republic. The REnaissance Revival facade is terra cotta. originally there was a half-dome at the corner then a neon marquee, and now a canopy with windows above that. The elegant theater with 1700 seats was successful until the 1980s.
		Terra cotta decoration The opulent theater has faux-classical details: bulls' heads, grotesques, classical urns, and fruit and floral swags and festoons.
The engraved name The name of the theater is emblazoned under the cornice.
The grand cornice
		Not quite bucrania! See the interior of the Ara Pacis in Rome.

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