{"id":5042,"date":"2013-01-04T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2013-01-04T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:02:48","slug":"rochester-rko-palace-theater-and-the-10-million-dollar-twin-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2013\/01\/rochester-rko-palace-theater-and-the-10-million-dollar-twin-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester&#8217;s RKO Palace Theater and the $10,000,000 Twin Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rochester's RKO Palace Theater, September 1965. A sign is hung on the marquee proclaiming this the site of new $10 Million dollar twin towers. The theater was demolished and no towers were ever built on the site. [PHOTO: Courtesy of Rochester Theater Organ Society]\" rel=\"lightbox-rkoPalaceTwinTowers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/RKO-Palace-051-New10MillionDollarTwinTowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/RKO-Palace-051-New10MillionDollarTwinTowers.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester's RKO Palace Theater, September 1965. A sign is hung on the marquee proclaiming this the site of new $10 Million dollar twin towers. The theater was demolished and no towers were ever built on the site. [PHOTO: Courtesy of Rochester Theater Organ Society]\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRuss Shaner, president of the Rochester Theater Organ Society has dug up another incredible photo of Rochester&#8217;s RKO Palace Theater&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a title=\"Rochester's RKO Palace Theater, September 1965. A sign is hung on the marquee proclaiming this the site of new $10 Million dollar twin towers. The theater was demolished and no towers were ever built on the site. [PHOTO: Courtesy of Rochester Theater Organ Society]\" rel=\"lightbox-rkoPalaceTwinTowers2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/RKO-Palace-051-New10MillionDollarTwinTowers.jpg\">This color photo<\/a> shows the theater&#8217;s front entrance in September 1965. A sign has just been hung on the theater&#8217;s marquee proclaiming this the new site of a $10,000,000 &#8220;Twin Towers&#8221; project. As <a href=\"http:\/\/therochesterian.com\/2011\/12\/25\/rko-palace-what-were-they-thinking\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>The Rochesterian<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> had earlier quoted from an old RTOS brochure: <\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px; margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;\">On its site will be erected a modern motel-office-theatre complex with twin eighteen story towers. The new 1200-seat theatre will be in the luxury class with the latest projection and sound equipment plus roomy seats that offer patrons \u201cliving room comfort.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Of course the Palace Theater was demolished, but no $10 Million project ever materialized. Promises, promises.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2012\/10\/never-before-seen-photos-of-rko-palace-theater-part1\/\" target=\"_new\">See more RKO Palace photos here<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russ Shaner, president of the Rochester Theater Organ Society has dug up another incredible photo of Rochester&#8217;s RKO Palace Theater&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,788,79],"tags":[118,1122,53,151,1301,1445,1585],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester_history","category-old-photos-of-rochester-ny","category-urban_development","tag-downtown-rochester","tag-rko-palace-theater","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-ny","tag-rochester-theater-organ-society","tag-russ-shaner","tag-the-rochesterian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}