The Music Palace closes in New York

[amnornes@umich.edu]

--On Tue, Jul 4, 2000 9:02 PM +0000 Bill Thompson
<siswt at CUVMC.AIS.COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

> When I first came to New York, the Chinatown movie theaters,
> like the Chinese restaurants, appeared to possess mysterious
> powers.  

I spent a good part of graduate school haunting the theaters of Little
Tokyo and Chinatown and Monterey Park in (living in an old hotel in
Downtown LA helped). I was struck by the sentence above. There was indeed
something very different about these theaters. The protocols for watching
films were so different. The films they showed were mostly the popular
types that no one ever talked or wrote about, but were so often gloriously
bad. I know that the Little Tokyo theater is long gone, but have always
wondered about the fate of the Chinese theaters. What's this world coming
to? How could people shut these places down? Some people's kids!?!?!?! 

Markus

Abe' Mark Nornes
University of Michigan