Sid Grauman had created multiple theaters like the Million Dollar, Egyptian, and the Chinese Theater. These theaters were well known for their architecture and building model. With these theaters, they were very hard to top during this time period. Other theaters tried to compete with Grauman's theaters. For example, Grauman's Chinese Theater was different because of …show more content…
What Andrew Smith said in Smithsonian about theaters and popcorn, at the time, was, ¨Movie theaters wanted nothing to do with popcorn because they were trying to duplicate what was done in real theaters. They had beautiful carpets and rugs and didn’t want popcorn being ground into it. Movie theaters were trying to appeal to a highbrow clientele, and didn’t want to deal with the distracting trash of concessions—or the distracting noise that snacking during a film would create¨ (Geiling). Smith was explaining about how theaters, during this time, theaters were fancier than they are