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April 2, 1902: Tally’s Electric Theatre, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles charging ten cents a ticket per customer. Seating up to 250 people, the ten-cent tickets sold out every showing, and the Electric Theatre was deemed to be the “new place of amusement.” It was completed at a time when most motion pictures were shown in storefronts or vaudeville theaters. The theater turned into a vaudeville theater itself for a time before returning to movies in 1910 as Glockner’s Automatic Theatre, closing in 1930 and the building was demolished in 1998.

“A NEW PLACE OF AMUSEMENT: Up to date high class moving picture entertainment, especially for ladies and children. See the Capture of the Biddle Bros., New York in a Blizzard, and many other interesting and exciting scenes. An Hour’s amusement and genuine fun for 10 cents admission.”

New York City in a Blizzard 1902
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zmWW-sDvU

The original storefront Tally’s Electric Theatre put Los Angeles on the map as the movie capital of the world. It was later renamed The Lyric Theatre and was the start of the Hollywood revolution.

The actual date of the theater’s opening varies among sources, the most often cited being April 2nd, 6th, and 16th. Tally’s initial success spurred on the wave of construction of more movie theaters, about 3,000 in the U.S. by 1907 and 10,000 by 1910. In later years, Tally had the idea to create an organization of exhibitors, one from each major city, which would buy, or make, and distribute their own films. He presented his idea to another exhibitor, John D. Williams of West Virginia, who liked the idea and combined forces with Tally. They named their new company First National Exhibitors Circuit.

Tally was the first to show a color film in Los Angeles in 1912. And his company signed superstars Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin shortly before they staged their own revolution, founding United Artists along with D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks in an effort to control their own fates and careers.

The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally's Electric Theatre:




Actress Bessie Love, looking so modern. Hard to believe this B&W photo is from 101 years ago...


She was the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers (WAMPAS) Baby Star of 1922.

Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress. D.W. Griffith saw she was pretty and had some acting talent, and put her in several of his films, also giving her a small part in Intolerance (1916). Bessie became popular with audiences and worked with Douglas Fairbanks in Reggie Mixes In (1916) and William S. Hart in The Aryan (1916). She then moved to Vitagraph and starred in a number of comedy-dramas. In the 1920s she began to act in more mature roles, such as Those Who Dance (1924), and also began working on the stage. She performed the first screen "Charleston" dance in The King on Main Street (1925), and gave one of her best performances in Dress Parade (1927).

She was nominated an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1929 The Broadway Melody (with sound). Bessie Love born Sept 10, 1898 in Midland, TX and died April 26, 1986 in London, England of natural causes.

Step back into the Golden Age of Hollywood with The Broadway Melody (1929), the first & Best Picture Oscar Winner that revolutionized the movie musical!

Full film with sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ESQXS5Lgg


X-Events: The Collapse of Everything (2012) by John Casti



What a shabby mob casino we live in. Dystopian fiction never saw this coming.


https://x.com/PolymarketStory/status/203...4128588191
Pentagon Pizza Index





We're a Go for Butlerian Jihad...


IRGC attacks Dubai Oracle data center

IRGC hits Amazon cloud facility in Bahrain


Sir, we can't do a ground invasion on such a mountain fortress. 
You're fired! Appears the Trump Admin is kicking off another purge, not just military. Bondi gone too and possibly Tulsi Gabbard may be on her way out.


Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George

Hegseth fired two additional Army generals:

Gen. David Hodne, a Ranger was head of the Army's Transformation and Training Command. Hodne, then a Major, was the officer in charge of operations and planning of the mission during which Pat Tillman was killed.

Maj. Gen. William Green, the US Army Chief of Chaplains.


Speaker of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Parliament:




"Back to the Stone Ages where they belong."


America 3000, released April 1986.




When in opposition, there is always more common sense and talk of peace. When in power, they are all the same.


https://x.com/OfTheBraveUSA/status/2009396225645412604

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare in play "As You Like It".


400+ million Muslims in the Middle East (West Asia as they call it now) with majority Sunni versus 10 million Israelis (guessing 7-8 million Jews + around 10,000 diaspora Jews living in Iran), so... the USA should just vacate the Middle East entirely and let them just fight it out to the bitter end.


BUT, the US can't because of some strange welded bond with Israel AND the petrodollar which holds up the US national debt. Diminish the dollar value and down goes America, economically speaking and we'd probably have a lot less billionaire psychopaths, especially the Zionist zealots who appear to have an awful amount of control & influence in Washington. Kick them all out of the USA and slam the door shut. We have 10 megaton nukes so don't test us, ever. Goodbye and good luck!

Take 50% of that $1.5 trillion budget and invest it in the USA. Tell the MIC to go pound sand in the ME desert. They're going to need a lot of weapons.

Yesterday for the first time in over 50 years we're going back to the moon, sorta. Imagine where we'd be if we could all just get along as ONE civilization. We'd already have a moon base with frequent shuttles and probably an early colony of some sort on Mars. (Then have more wars up there)