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The Downtown Independent (formerly the ImaginAsian Center) was a one screen theater and cinema located at 251 S. Main Street in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] It was operated by the Downtown Independent and owned by Orange County, California's Cinema Properties Group.
The Mayan Theater is a prototypical example of the many ornate exotic revival-style theaters of the late 1920s, Mayan Revival in this case. The well-preserved lobby is called "The Hall of Feathered Serpents," the auditorium includes a chandelier based on the Aztec calendar stone , and the original fire curtain included images of Mayan jungles ...
Sunset Las Palmas Studios, formerly General Service Studios and Hollywood Center Studios, is an American independent entertainment production lot located at 1040 North Las Palmas Avenue in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. It has stage facilities and provides filmmaking services to clients in the film, television and advertising ...
The Regent Theatre is a live music venue and historic former movie theater in the Downtown section of Los Angeles, California. Opened as the National Theatre in 1914, it is the oldest remaining theater building on South Main Street.
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
The theater became one of the first in the United States built specifically to show movies. [4] In 1921, a US$50,000 Wurlitzer organ was installed in the theater. [5] In 1924, Los Angeles theater proprietor H. L. Gumbinger closed the facility for renovation. The overhaul included the addition of a 16-piece house orchestra. [6]
Downtown Los Angeles's Paramount Theatre opened as Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre on January 26, 1923.The building was financed by the Hill Street Fireproof Building Company, designed by George Edwin Bergstrom with the theater and building interior designed by William Lee Woollett, all for impresario Sid Grauman, [2] known at the time for the Million Dollar Theatre and best remembered today ...
Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States.The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district ...