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Flushing RKO Keith's Theatre

This gallery was created to focus attention on preservation efforts for the landmarked Flushing RKO Keith's theatre. Many cities have restored these vaudeville show palaces, where they have gone on to become centerpiece preforming arts event centers, while the RKO Keith's has languished for 25 years. The RKO Keith's still stands and is one of the last remaining theatres, in the 3,000 seat class built in an atmospheric style, where the interior was designed to give the illusion of being outdoors in a Mediterranean villa. It represents a crowning achievement by the world renowned theatre architect Thomas White Lamb that made the larger Loews Paradise theatre in the Bronx (restored in 2005) gaudy in comparison.
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    The West Proscenium: Once upon a time someone took great care in creating this. You can see either the chips in the plaster or a design that is still intact. If you look close enough you will see that it was an artist's call for where to use approximate symmetry.
    Like the Great Sphinx of Giza this sculpture relief from the East proscenium has a broken nose, hopefully this can be repaired.
    Twins in the relief of the West orchestra wall, 2011.