opera at the plaza
One can still catch glimmers of the glamorous past of downtown El Paso, although it's hard to envision the past cosmopolitan aspect of this border city. Just down the street from the elegant Paso del Norte Hotel with its Tiffany-glass domed bar, the Plaza Theater welcomed sophisticates. Built in 1930 and billed as the largest theater of its kind between Los Angeles and Dallas, it was a jewel in downtown El Paso. Designed in Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture, the interior featured intricately painted ceilings, mosaic-tiled floors, decorative metal railings and sconces. With such grandiose rococo design, it's no wonder the Plaza was known as The Showplace of the Southwest.
El Paso, Texas
10.14.2006
Remember "road show attractions?" That's the movies I saw at the Plaza when I was a child--The Music Man, The Sound of Music, etc. Then when I was in college it was a revival house, where I got to see Citizen Kane on the big screen as it was intended. Now it is gloriously reborn as a performing arts center!
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