The Chicken Ranch: Early Universal History

Motion pictures can be an intoxicating and addictive drug for some people. Like a moth to a light, they are drawn into an all consuming passion that can never really be completely satisfied. Carl Laemmle, an immigrant from Bavaria, Germany, was one such person.Laemmle came to America in 1884 and opened a five and dime store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Years later, his life’s direction would change when he visited a local nickelodeon. The magical, flickering images sparked his imagination and stoked his ambitions. By 1906, he opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago in a vacant building on Milwaukee Avenue. He painted the facade white and the venue became known as The White Front Theater. It was an immediate success.
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