{"id":297,"date":"2009-08-16T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2009-08-16T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T23:27:41","slug":"national-generals-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/08\/16\/national-generals-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"National General&#8217;s Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In keeping with the <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/08\/11\/end-credits-for-mann-theatres\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent announcement that Mann is selling off theatres<\/a>, including Grauman&#8217;s Chinese, here is a picture from the last time the Chinese changed hands.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ngchinese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-298\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"National General's Chinese Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ngchinese-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ngchinese-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ngchinese-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ngchinese.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The picture comes from a 1970-1971 souvenir brochure National General Theatres released; although the photo was likely taken a few years earlier. Then part of Gene Klein&#8217;s\u00a0insurance and entertainment conglomerate, National General Corporation,\u00a0the theatre division was sold to Ted Mann in 1973, launching Mann Theatres (the chain\u00a0went on to change\u00a0parent companies\u00a0three times over the ensuing decades).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the recent announcement that Mann is selling off theatres, including Grauman&#8217;s Chinese, here is a picture from the last time the Chinese changed hands. . \u00a0 The picture comes from a 1970-1971 souvenir brochure National General Theatres released; although the photo was likely taken a few years earlier. Then part of Gene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-industry","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}