Ticket to Paradise: American Movie Theaters and How We Had Fun Hardcover – January 1, 1991

This is a great book to to add to the collection for younger baby boomers of the 60s. The feeling and surroundings of the deep theatre seats, the magical neon lighting in the lobbies and theatres, the great taste of the popcorn, pop and candy. It was a great time to be a kid on a gloomy Saturday afternoon. If I was young again, I'd do it gain!

If you want to enjoy movie houses from days gone by, this is the book. It is not a coffee table book but it is a good size and features a lot of great pictures with some text.

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Great pictures, some bittersweet. As a retired motion picture projectionist, I appreciate this book.Memories of how things that used to be before multi-plex shoe boxes.

A Great Book.

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My first job was at a multi-screen movie theater in a mall only 13 years ago, and that theater is gone too. "Ticket to Paradise" by John Margolies is a wonderful, captivating look at the bygone era of grand movie theaters. Full of intriguing photos, most in color, this book leads you by the hand through the days when going to the movies was fun. I was astonished at how extravagant even the small town theaters were, and the thought and ingenuity that was put into the design of the signs and marquees.It's heartbreaking to me that most of these georgeous old theaters were shut down, to be replaces by sanatized 20 screen theaters that had nothing memorable about them, most even built without marquees, these days. This book will take you back before the term "multi-screen" was ever used, when they're were ushers to guide you down the dark aisles when you came in late, and those wonderfule snack bar trailers... "Let's go out to the lobby..." etc...If you have a passion for movies, and the bygone age of Hollywood, you will love this book.