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Movie theatre historian David Naylor disapproved of the interior decor of the Sacramento Crest, calling it a "degenerated" form of the Art Deco Style, made popular at Paris's 1925 Exposition des arts décoratifs. He stated of some 1930s theatres: "Art deco degenerated further in the theaters built in the years following [c. 1931]. The most popular decorative element of the period was a convoluted stretch of gold plaster, variously referred to as feathers or curling waves. Bright neon, colored fabrics, and these applied golden featers [sic] are the only items of note in theaters of the Depression (e.g. the Sacramento Crest, the Centre in Denver, and the Fox-Westwood Village in Los Angeles.)" (See David Naylor, American Picture Palaces: The Architecture of Fantasy, [New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981], p. 172.)

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