Post mortem for the detroit united artists

[Gistok]

While on a fruitless search for a color photograph of the Detroit United Artists Theatre, I did come across a color photo from the Manning Brothers... of the [1928-61] old Fisher Theatre in its' Mayan/Aztec decor. I'm not sure if this was a color Auto-chrome photograph taken shortly before the 3,000 seat Fisher opened up in 1928, or if it was just a colorized image. But the old Fisher was truly one of a kind, before it was gutted in 1961 for the modern smaller shell, a 2,089 seat brass and teak dated theatre that survives today.

From David Naylor's American Picture Palaces book... "The new Fisher is more "dated" in appearance than the old Fisher would be today, had it survived. Mayanesque theatres were never in great supply, and on a massive scale, they number only one, the Fisher."

Fisher Organ 4/34 Wurlitzer one of a kind organ... image is modern, taken at its' current location at the Senate Theatre in Detroit.