The narrative takes an unexplained leap from the depression years of the early 1930s to the post-WWII era of the consent decree and the arrival of television thus completely omitting and ignoring the games and giveaways which helped theatres survive from the mid-1930s to the early-1940s, and the huge increase in patronage during the WWII years, when downtown theatres ran 18 hours a day, and movie attendance peaked at an all time record of close to 100 million tickets per week.
The list of important movie palaces which are not included is immense, and understandable, but Timothy Pflueger's astounding surviving Paramount in Oakland CA should definitely have been included.