ANOTHER MONUMENT: A MOVIE HOUSE OF THE 1920's

 

THE CITY BOUGHT AND RENOVATED THE LEGENDARY THEATER SLATED TO BECOME A WAREHOUSE

Le Grand Rex, next to métro Barbès, toward 1930 and now:

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The main gay discotheque of the 1980's was abandoned in 1988, almost sold to the Tati chain, restored by the City in 2013... 

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 ...and now is a movie theater again.

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The washhouse that literature immortalized