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The Fabulous Fox, as Atlanta affectionately calls it, is among the most lavish surviving movie palaces in the United States, a riot of Moorish and Egyptian fantasy on Peachtree Street in the city's Midtown. The building began life in the late 1920s as an ambitious headquarters for a local Shriners organisation, but the extravagant cost outran their means, and the auditorium was leased to the film magnate William Fox. It opened on Christmas Day of 1929, just weeks after the stock-market crash tha...