The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

You can also use Windows key + Print key for screenshots. They'll be saved under "screenshots" in your image folder.

[HVC]

Alt + print screen just copies the window you have open

[Grey Fox]

Tyr's trick is great to take screenshots of opened dialog boxes.

[Barrister]

[Syt]

I've just noticed that Super Macho Man in Mike Tyson's Punch Out on NES is Superstar Billy Graham with different hair color.

[Tamas]

That is a nice venue. Was just there on Friday.

Managed to sell the Friday ones and bought one for tomorrow 

Since this is already a bit of a reunion tour, might be my last chance to see the band.

[Josquius]

I've just noticed that Super Macho Man in Mike Tyson's Punch Out on NES is Superstar Billy Graham with different hair color.
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I google his name and get some preacher guy.

[The Larch]

I've just noticed that Super Macho Man in Mike Tyson's Punch Out on NES is Superstar Billy Graham with different hair color.
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I google his name and get some preacher guy.

It's better if you include the "Superstar" part in your search. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar_Billy_Graham

[The Brain]

I've just noticed that Super Macho Man in Mike Tyson's Punch Out on NES is Superstar Billy Graham with different hair color.
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I google his name and get some preacher guy.

lol

And yeah people are never multitalented.

[Savonarola]

At one time the first run movie houses in major cities in the United States were enormous palaces.  Going to one would be something people got dressed up for, similar to going to a play or concert.  Some had live entertainment before the movies; the movie "Footlight Parade," concerns itself with that (not that any real world venue could put on a Busby Berkely dance sequence.)  The BBC has photographs of some of the most opulent ones remaining in Los Angeles:  article.

United Artist:


Los Angeles Theater:

According to the article Charlie Chaplin put up some of the money to build in order to premier "City Lights."

San Gabriel Mission Playhouse:


Grauman's Chinese Theater:


Tower Theater:


In Detroit there are a number of theaters like this.  Almost all were abandoned as the city fell on hard times.  A few were refurbished and reopened (one as a parking garage, as you know if you've seen "Eight Mile", but most as theaters.)  The funniest is the current Detroit Opera House; it was one of the original silent movie theaters in Detroit.  The owner had the architects design the exterior to look nondescript; that way if the movies were a passing fad he could refurbish it as office space.

[Josquius]

The UK had a lot of old cinemas too. My home town of 15,000 people (albeit the central town of a lot of villages) had two or three. The buildings were still there when I was a kid, derelict, but have since been demolished.
I guess its an advantage of Detroit's particularly hard times. Where elsewhere in the world these buildings would have been demolished; there, they can linger on.

[derspiess]

I guess its an advantage of Detroit's particularly hard times. Where elsewhere in the world these buildings would have been demolished there they can linger on.

That actually helped preserve a lot of nice Italianate architecture in Cincy's Over the Rhine district.  It was so poor and crime-ridden for decades that nobody wanted to develop there.  Now with gentrification and a lot of money going in to renovate these old buildings, OTR has transformed into a really nice place to go (during the day, anyway).

[Josquius]

I guess its an advantage of Detroit's particularly hard times. Where elsewhere in the world these buildings would have been demolished there they can linger on.

That actually helped preserve a lot of nice Italianate architecture in Cincy's Over the Rhine district.  It was so poor and crime-ridden for decades that nobody wanted to develop there.  Now with gentrification and a lot of money going in to renovate these old buildings, OTR has transformed into a really nice place to go (during the day, anyway).

I guess its also the story of particularly well preserved Medieval and Renaissance cities.
Later periods of development left them behind.

[Duque de Bragança]

At one time the first run movie houses in major cities in the United States were enormous palaces.  Going to one would be something people got dressed up for, similar to going to a play or concert.  Some had live entertainment before the movies; the movie "Footlight Parade," concerns itself with that (not that any real world venue could put on a Busby Berkely dance sequence.)  The BBC has photographs of some of the most opulent ones remaining in Los Angeles:  article.

If you like this kind of cinemas, you should try the Grand Rex in Paris. That's the closest I can think of and it is still running, specially for events, such as watching The Room with 2,000 people.

[The Larch]

The fancy old cinema in my city, build in the 1940s, closed down in 2001, the last film it showed was Tomb Raider.