Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theater

Movie theater

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s in the United States

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 dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film Corporation studio owner William Fox

William Fox (producer)

William Fox born Fried Vilmos was a pioneering Hungarian American motion picture executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s...

, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain.
Many of these grand "movie palace

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s" were built with a mishmash of architectural styles drawn from Asian

Chinese architecture

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, Indian

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, Persian

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, and Moorish

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 influences.
The Fox theaters still standing today share almost identical histories of decline and fall into disrepair as demographics and moviegoing habits changed in the post-World War II

World War II

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 years.