Tally's Broadway

Tally's Broadway was built in thirty days and opened on May 2, 1910. Thomas Lincoln Tally was the owner, having previously owned Tally's New Broadway which this theater was also briefly named before adopting the name Tally's Broadway. This theater had a capacity of 900. In 1912, Tally's Broadway was renamed Kinemacolor Theatre after the kinemacolor process it used to show color films. The theater, however, soon returned to its previous name. The building was demolished in 1928 and replaced by an expansion of the Hamburger's Department Store to its north. ==Architecture and design==

Tally's Broadway featured an unimposing The entrance was centered in the building and had storefronts on either side. Inside, the theater featured high ceilings with four large stained glass panels in its center. Sixteen billikens in faintly illuminated bluish-green windows were on either side of the theater. Above the screen was a green curtain, with additional curtains over the windows located at the sides of the theater. Four pendant lamps were located on each side of the theater, hanging from a low-roofed arch. Additional light was provided by twenty-eight indirect ceiling lamps. The pit was installed for $1,500 . Organ Tally's Broadway was said to have the largest theater organ in the world. It was built by Murray M. Harris and consisted of a choir organ on a stage, a swell organ left of the stage and a great organ to the right, and a $7,000 echo organ, $1,000 harp, and approx. $1,000 chimes about from the stage just below the ceiling. The organs had approx. 4000 pipes in total and were the first pipe organs ever installed in a movie theater. They were installed ==References==