My painting of an abandoned movie theatre

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Comments and suggestions welcome!

[CrispyQ]

1. Great collection!

Old Stone Bridge. Abridged. is wonderful!!

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9. Thank you much!

[Docreed2003]

2. Love the colors!

I found this about the theater if you're interested. This was the description of the theater I found under a photo on Pinterest:

Abandoned Guild Adult Theater, 12719 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, Mi. (Opened as the Franklin Theatre in 1926, this very small theater became known as the Guild Theatre in 1962, when it started showing foreign features.Later, it was renamed the Guild Art, and began showing adult films. In 1992, the “Art” portion of the name was dropped.The Guild Theatre has been closed since the early-2000’s.)

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8. Thanks for the info!

[Docreed2003]

11. You're most welcome!!

[MLAA]

3. I like the air of simplicity. Feels nostalgic somehow. It's comforting.

Makes me think of being a kid walking down the sidewalk and noticing places.

Well done!

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7. Thanks. I think it has a little of a Hopper feel to it.

[soothsayer]

4. Pretty neat. I like your style. Could it be the old Guild theater?

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6. That's absolutely it!

[lunatica]

5. Your nostalgic rendition quickly brought memories

of an almost abandoned commercial center close to where I lived in a city next to Oakland in California.

There was a Montgomery Ward department building, a parking lot and a movie theatre that had been abandoned when the ubiquitous Malls absorbed all the businesses and entertainment centers. For a while there was a camera store which lasted until digital cameras came along. The only thing that has probably survived is one of those depressingly minimal dull architectural styles of a Wells Fargo bank branch.

The city never did anything about this little commercial center while I lived there. About half a mile away was one of those gigantic, plain and ugly Target stores with huge parking lots and a gas station on the corner where two major streets crossed.

The little commercial center was a very sad reminder that progress leaves crumbling and dying symbols of the past. It was just the bones, the skeletons never buried, left to disintegrate at their own pace. And replaced by a giant block of a windowless and featureless building, even more featureless and uninteresting.

The memory came immediately so in my case you capture that empty feeling as well as the lingering stubborn feeling of the building disintegrating slowly.

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10. Seeing these old building makes me so sad.

If buildings could talk--what stories they'd tell!

[LiberalLoner]

12. Gorgeous! Such a symphony in blue!