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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Miami Film Festival and other events that promoted independent and Latin American films later moved into the theatre. In 1984, it shut down but was revived after the City of Miami permitted Miami Dade College to reopen it. The theater initially screened English-language movies with Spanish subtitles but eventually began screening Spanish-language films too. In the early 60s, Tower Theater entertained Cuban refugees with films, introducing them to American culture. It was the South's finest state-of-the-art theater after its launch in 1926. Tower Theater is one of the oldest cultural landmarks in Miami, located at 1508 SW Eighth St. So far, the department hasn’t revealed the reason behind the decision. Moreover, Lorenzo thanked Miami Dade College for their services and mentioned they'll coordinate with them for events scheduled after the contract's termination. The department's interim director, Jacqueline Lorenzo, penned it and stated that the department would terminate the college's contract on January 2, 2023. Miami’s Department of Real Estate and Asset Management sent Miami Dade College a notice on September 19. Miami Dade College will no longer manage the theater from 2023 on. However, after 20 years, there has been a change of events. Will keep you posted if I find out more.Miami Dade College has been handling Little Havana's iconic Tower Theater for two decades now. Would be interesting if we could see what actual work was done in ‘37 and '41. Seems like a major alteration if the theater had just been remodeled in 1937 by Lee. Items submitted by the contractor included reinforcing steel, demolition, tile work, marble work, roofing, glass and glazing, plumbing, bracing, shoring, house moving, masonry, lathing & plastering, etc. In the file that I have, which documents the business side of the work, it seems a fairly substantial alteration was done. Although I don’t have the actual drawings of what was done, I have written Columbia where they are archived to see if I can see what is there (). Correspondence is with Nasser Brothers, Residential District Theater Co. In the file that I have, the theater is listed as Nasser Theater as well as Majestic and Tower. Minton, with illustrations on this page and the text on the previous page. That means it’s likely that the marquee and vertical sign with just enough spaces for the name Tower probably dates from Minton’s remodeling rather than Lee’s.Ĭoincidentally, the August, 1937 Architect & Engineer did have a brief article about a school auditorium in San Mateo designed by H. The house was still listed as the Majestic in the 1939 city directory. One thing we can be sure of is that the name was not changed after Lee’s remodeling job. It was not unusual for theaters to undergo alterations requiring an architect’s involvement every few years.
In any case (and I don’t know why I didn’t notice this earlier) Lee’s remodeling job took place in 1937, and since the correspondence you mention was dated 1941-42, it would have been about a different project. Leonard, either of whom might have been Lee’s San Francisco associate for this project. I checked the address in the 1937 San Francisco city directory, and among the 32 results were one architect, Douglas Dacee Stone, and one structural engineer, John B.
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Charles Lee, 381 Bush Street, San Francisco, has let contracts for remodeling the Majestic Theater at 2465 Mission Street, San Francisco.”I doubt that Lee maintained a full office in San Francisco, so 381 Bush must have been the quarters of someone associated with him, at least on this particular project. Aside from the fact that the Tower in Los Angeles had been built almost a decade earlier, the Architect & Engineer item I cited didn’t mention the name Tower: “S. AMinton: The conflation of the two Towers would have been highly improbable.
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