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This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4] Designed by S. Charles Lee, [5] and Samuel Tilden Norton, the theater features a French Baroque interior.
Vista Theatre opened on October 9, 1923, [2] as a single-screen theater. In addition to screening films, the theater also showed vaudeville acts on stage. [3] Originally known as Lou Bard Playhouse on opening day in 1923, the cinema played the film Tips starring Baby Peggy. [4] The original seating capacity in the auditorium held space for 838 ...
The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.
The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall produces more than 100 programs each year, including plays, concerts, dance performances, film screenings, simulcasts, and literary readings. It was posthumously named for the matinee idol John Drew Jr. , a member of the Barrymore family who summered in East Hampton from the late 19th century to the early ...
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, also known as Egyptian Hollywood and the Egyptian, is a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [1] Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the world's first film premiere .
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 ...
The theatre's location at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles’ two busiest retail streets of the early 1920s [8] ensured that the theatre was a consistent money maker. [5] At the time of the State Theatre’s opening the theatre’s projection booth was proclaimed to be the largest in the world [ 3 ] and boasted the unique feature of a ...
The STILE Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa, originally built as the California Petroleum Corporation Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a 243 ft (74 m), 13-story highrise hotel and theater building located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its ...