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Originally Posted by dmintz
great thread. denver now has twice the population it had in the 1920's. I wonder what made the economy back then able to support 60,000 seats and why we haven't returned to near that level despite a growing population.
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Chalk it up to the changes in the entertainment industry. Movie theaters, professional sport venues, stage plays, concerts, symphonies, ballet, your home theater, the internets, etc.
You've got a lot more mediums competing for attention and one medium, the theater, isn't going to be able to hold such a dominant position.
Wonderful pictures, the real losses IMO would be the Tabor Opera House (though would it's presence been a detriment to getting the Performing Arts Center built?) and the Broadway Theater because of the building above it.
I don't think either structure would be a theater today, but they would have been great adaptive reuses.