Radio City Music Hall Tour - New York City TV

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A contest was held to select a designer and an independent named Donald Deskey bowled Roxy over with his magnificent Art Deco presentation. Deskey would go on to design all public areas of the theater in Art Deco, including thirty lobby areas, smoking rooms, foyers and lounges. But while Art Deco was a prominent and important style at the time, nothing yet had been done in that world on a scale as massive as this and the Rockefeller Center as a whole.

The world-famous exterior marquee is a full city block long and incorporates enough neon tubing to run six linear miles. The main foyer dwarfs guests with its 60 feet high ceiling lined with real 24 carat gold leafing. The foyer staircase takes you under Erzra Winter's giant sixty foot by thirty foot mural, and Hildreth Meiere's plaques of "Spirits of Song, Drama and Dance" take up the South wall. The plaques are considered to be the earliest use of aluminum, bronze, chrome, copper, enamel and steel used as art on such a scale. And this is all before you even get inside the auditorium.