Olympia Theater
Nineteen twenties Spanish-courtyard movie palace with a starlit painted sky and a still-original Wurlitzer organ.
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This guide to the Olympia Theater in Miami starts in August 1956, when Elvis Presley arrived in town and the police were left struggling to hold back the crowd. It also looks at the 1926 architect John Eberson's design, a Spanish courtyard under a painted night sky, and at the scene on the street outside the stage door. Best heard from a seat under the ceiling, or on the sidewalk on Southeast Second Avenue.
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