Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces

We at the Bijou believe that the movie houses of the early twentieth century are every bit as entertaining as the films they showed and equally worthy of a closer look. For today's post we are pleased to present an excerpt from Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces. Written by Mary Halnon Kadera, a former American Studies student at the University of Virginia, it offers a look at