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Word: adamson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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Just two weeks before, yet another Moorish movie palace, Miami's Olympia, had shut down.* Typically, rural theater chains like Oregon's Adamson have reported a 30% drop in volume in the past year. In Portland, where business is also dragging, the "nabes" (the trade term for neighborhood houses) are now closed except on weekends, and some metropolitan theaters, even in New York's Times Square area, will be dark until the beginning of the Christmas season. Across the country, weekly movie admissions have steadily and disastrously declined after reaching a peak of 80 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NATO Is a House o' Weenies | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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