My grandfather was a plumber and I guess he somehow was involved with repair/clean up (?) and took it out — it sounds rather boring but it is a massive brass guage encased in some kind of gothic looking black iron design– kind of interesting on it's own. Just the size and ornate-ness of it gives you an idea of how architecturally interesting old theaters were back then, since that was just an old pressure guage.

My grandfather was a plumber and I guess he somehow was involved with repair/clean up (?) and took it out — it sounds rather boring but it is a massive brass guage encased in some kind of gothic looking black iron design– kind of interesting on it's own. Just the size and ornate-ness of it gives you an idea of how architecturally interesting old theaters were back then, since that was just an old pressure guage.

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Atlanta doesn't really have a place like this that I'm aware of. There are one or two theaters that were set up with a bar/restaurant where you could eat & drink while you watch a movie, but I've never been because it seems too distracting.

The Tara is probably the closest thing we have to a theater that has still maintained some of it's old school charm (still a product of the 70's, but compared to today's mega-plexes it's not bad).

Most of the old theaters that had any charm at all were either destroyed, or converted into a concert venue (aka “The Roxy”, now of course “The Coca-Cola Roxy Theater”).

The Fox Theater still shows movies during the summers, and it's a great old theater but it's really too big, and the sound of today's movies can't be appreciated here as a result (lots of “echo” and hard to appreciate today's quality).

Film Festivals are held at Georgia State and the Rialto Theater. It's a larger theater, too (not as big as the Fox), and isn't exclusively a movie house, but still very nice is that old, classic feel.