asbestos fire curtain

  • 41Architecture —    The decades after the Civil War saw the rise of the opera house as a venue to attract more fashionable people than those who would attend the traditional theatre. While a theatre could be anything from a barn to a third floor hall above… …

    The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

  • 42smoke pocket — noun : a steel angle enclosing the edge of the asbestos curtain in a theater for keeping smoke and flames from getting into the theater in case of fire …

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