Bill Graham bought a dilapidated movie palace to open the Fillmore East

Evidence

In late winter, Bill Graham—the thirty-seven-year-old San Francisco rock impresario, a childhood Holocaust survivor who grew up in the Bronx and once managed the San Francisco Mime Troupe—bought the old Loew’s Commodore, a moldering 2,700-seat movie palace on Second Avenue, then being managed as the Village Theater, and located in the same building as EVO’s offices. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1304

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Material condition of invention: a moldering 2,700-seat movie palace, cheap and available, became the Fillmore East — infrastructure enabling scenes, relevant to the trees-as-infrastructure framing.