Two Hearts Banquet Center
originally Mark Twain Cinema
4532 S. Lindbergh at Gravois - south County
Architect: ?
Date: 1968

Toby Weiss put me on the trail of this one; I had the great fortune to arrive there just as dusk was falling. So very few buildings are truly best photographed at night, but this I believe is one of them. Two Hearts soars by day and gleams by night, its angled roof seemingly ready to soar to the heavens.

A history flyer on the bulletin board notes that the building was "designed by an architecture firm from Beverly Hlls, California" though they don't give a name. The rising trend of multiplexes meant that the Mark Twain Cin