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The French-inspired exterior of the Chicago Paradise (1928) betrays its commercial, working- and middle-class roots through its massive electrical marquee, a holdover from arcades, vaudeville houses, and amusement parks.

The exterior of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Movie historian Ben Hall wrote about this theater, constructed in Los Angeles in 1927 and still a popular landmark, "If the Roxy in New York was the Cathedral of the Motion Picture, the Chinese was its High Pagoda."

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