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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri May 13 07:11:10 2011, in response to Re: Inside the RKO Keith and its Alluring Decay, posted by SMAZ on Thu May 12 19:14:36 2011. For an idea of what it once looked like, the Loews Valencia in Jamaica had a somewhat similar interior. It's been used as a Church since the mid 70's and is restored. While the interior was painted very garish colors, the beauty of the place is still there, and fully intact.The Valencia also had the atmospheric interior with the "star" effect on the ceiling like the Keiths in Flushing. Here's the exterior of the Valencia around 2001, showing it is now the "Tabernacle of Prayer". Of course the most noticable difference is the absence of the Jamaica Avenue El out front....  Here's photos of the interior auditorium, from the 1920's, and the color ones from 2003:   And the balcony of the theater in 2003 and in the 1930's:   Here's historic and current photos of the lobby. The current ones taken in 2003, and the historic ones in the 1920's or 30's:     Also the Loews Paradise in the Bronx, also fully restored as a theater and shows what the interior colors should be too (unlike the Valencia, which is intact, but has garish paint colors) 
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