Early entertainment venues become the seedbed of later media clusters

Evidence

The condensed presence of such popular sites appears to have been attractive to the first cinematograph exhibitors as several of the very first cinematograph screenings in Pera are known to have been carried in this complex in the period circa 1897–1902: in the Variety Theatre, in the Odeon Theatre and in the cafe of the Luxembourg Apartments (Gökmen, 1989, pp. 13–14). In 1911, the Variety Theatre was converted into a permanent cinema hall, being the second of its kind in Pera and the first on Grand Avenue. Between 1913 and 1915, the Odeon Theatre, the Luxembourg Apartments, and a skating palace on the blocks along Yesilcam all followed suit; by 1943, three more cinema halls would be set up in these two blocks. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 825

Categorization

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