Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1907/
The Houston Hippodrome was designed by Tony Pleskow and Tom Rael
and opened in 1909 as a venue for Yiddish vaudeville acts and films.
In 1917 the 600-seat venue was renamed the Sunshine Theatre. The theater
closed in 1945 and was used as a storage warehouse into the mid-1990s.
The theatre underwent a three-year, $12 million renovation to create
an art film house with five auditoriums.
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