Tampa Theatre

you gotta watch it it's amazing yeah they

um they played it at Tampa Theater um a couple years ago and I really wanted to go see it and I'm like still kicking myself that I missed it because it's a really beautiful historic theater here um but no I've never seen that and I know that it's beautiful I've seen I've seen like every fucking movie ever I've seen so many stills of it but I've never like sat down and watched the whole movie you know

Yeah, it's really amazing and beautiful.

And I think that if you watch it, you'll see, okay, this is very much, I see where he was inspired.

Have it taken from you

... then you're, uh, you have a, a place in your heart for the historic place that is called the Tampa Theatre.

We got to take it.

And I don't know if you knew this about the Tampa Theatre.

They are celebrating 100 years.

They can't just leave it for you.

Don't know where it came from.

They do really killer ghost tours there.

It's in downtown Tampa, which there's really no reason to go to downtown Tampa except for this theater.

And it's called the Tampa Theater.

And it is this ornate velvet with these beautiful lights and everything is so absolutely gorgeous and preserved.

And it's great.

But yeah, like who the fuck wants to drive to Tampa? No parking.

No parking.

i'm gonna take a 90 uber to go to tampa theater but

so do they show old movies or do they just

Yeah.

Don't forget, next week you can catch us over at, uh, the Tampa Theater for the, uh, Pretty in Pink party.

Stop by and see us.

We're out there.

Playing is free, and it starts at 6:30 tonight.

We've been talking about the Tampa Theatre reopening this past weekend, and its 100th birthday coming up this Thursday.

If you wanna check out the restoration for yourself, tonight they're showing Casablanca.

It's a 1942 romantic drama mixing love with a World War II storyline in a Moroccan setting.

I watched this movie in high school, but I was a knucklehead, and I probably didn't appreciate it the way I should have.

The show is at 7:00 tonight, and a ticket for it at the new and improved Tampa Theatre is 15 bucks for non-members.

And tomorrow night, if you've ever wanted to learn how to play and understand the complex rules of pickleball, here's your chance.

The St. Pete Parks and Rec Department is hosting Pickleball 101 at Bartlett Park, where a certified instructor will teach you the basics.

I'm Skye Lebaron.

[upbeat music] This weekend's supposed to be a rainy one, but there's still plenty going on in the Tampa Bay Area, from a plant festival to the reopening of the Tampa Theatre to a class about Bigfoot.

You're gonna hear about it all, but first, let's hit the local news headlines.

[upbeat music] Hurricane Isaias is now a Category 2 storm, and it's expected to make landfall on the western side of the Florida Panhandle tonight or tomorrow.

There's also coastal flood advisories starting this morning for Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus Counties, along with more to the north of that.

Plus, there's a high chance of rip currents along Florida's west coast, so maybe not the weekend to test out your saltwater swimming skills.

The Tampa Theatre opens back up tomorrow after the main auditorium was closed for months to complete a multimillion dollar restoration.

Theatre CEO George Levesque says so much of the place has been revitalized.

That's where the theaters were, the restaurants, the, the stores.

I mean, Tampa Theatre is also celebrating 100 years this year.

And so for Davis to be able to, to dredge that, the, those little mud flats that were out there to create land just, you know, adjacent to Hyde Park and right up across, you know, a bridge, you know, of course there was no bridge, but right across the channel from, from downtown, you know, that was a, a real crowning achievement.

And because, you know, Florida was still seen as an exotic location, the island was part of the attraction.

It's on display at the Henry B.

Plant Museum, which used to be the city's first movie theater, predating even the Tampa Theatre, which turns 100 next week.

I stopped by the exhibit to get schooled up on Tampa's history of film with museum director Charles Grow.

We're standing in front of 12 still shots taken by William Dickson.

And then it's only over the course of time, which is what we see in the exhibit, where what people are going to see is actually a narrative, like, storytelling experience.

When's the first time that a moviegoer would hear sound?

So, um, that's actually something that we talk about in relation to the early years of Tampa Theatre.

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