They usually mosey through the comments sometime during the day. Squeaky wheel, grease, etc. The theatre’s in walking distance of every other theatre in Westwood, too.
The building could still stand. Everyone thinks the Alpine Theatre in Alpine Village has been demolished, but it’s still there – you just have to know where to look!
Ken, you’ve done a great job on detailing these Southern California theatres despite living so far away! Also known as the New Capitol Theatre (1945), it was located at 127 South El Paseo. I can drive by the address next time I’m down in that area.
The theatres I know of in Downey throughout its history are the Avenue, Downey, Meralto and Victory Theatres; the Showcase Cinemas I & II, and the Krikorian Downey Cinema 10.
The clubs that have made this theatre their home for the past four or five years have now moved to other venues. Not sure what this bodes for the future of the Las Palmas…
December 13, 1973: “The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men’s room.”
Tally also ran Tally’s New Broadway Theatre (428 South Broadway), another Tally’s Electric Theatre (262 South Main Street; both in Los Angeles), and Tally’s Theatre (904 State Street) in Santa Barbara.
Just a few doors down from the now-gutted-for-retail Mann Hastings 3 / Mann Hastings Ranch Triplex / Pasadena Hastings Tri-Plex, this theatre boasts a 60-foot screen (in a spacious, if cold, auditorium) and use to be a 5-plex. It was split into 8 screens in 1994, but you can still see evidence of its former life as a 5-plex on some of the placards just before you go into the far auditoriums. There also use to be a Hastings Drive-In Theatre at Rosemead & Foothill in Pasadena, but that’s another story.
I think it was just a board burp, Charles. Has anyone thought of these churches that take over old theatres as simply place-sitters for the time being?
The Tomkat was indeed a Pussycat (it had a long-running engagement of “Deep Throat”). There may still be one Pussycat up in Sacramento, but they’re mostly all gone now.
They usually mosey through the comments sometime during the day. Squeaky wheel, grease, etc. The theatre’s in walking distance of every other theatre in Westwood, too.
Shouldn’t this be listed as being located in Westwood, not Los Angeles?
Okay, I’ll be less rhetorical: this was never a member of the Mann Theatres chain.
The Center Theatre was located at either 4760 or 4762 Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles.
The building could still stand. Everyone thinks the Alpine Theatre in Alpine Village has been demolished, but it’s still there – you just have to know where to look!
Ken, you’ve done a great job on detailing these Southern California theatres despite living so far away! Also known as the New Capitol Theatre (1945), it was located at 127 South El Paseo. I can drive by the address next time I’m down in that area.
The Boulevard still stands. KDAY is back on the air, too – 93.5 on your FM dial, out of Redondo Beach(!).
The theatres I know of in Downey throughout its history are the Avenue, Downey, Meralto and Victory Theatres; the Showcase Cinemas I & II, and the Krikorian Downey Cinema 10.
Bad news: water damage to the projection room almost certainly precludes film screenings for the reasonably near future.
The clubs that have made this theatre their home for the past four or five years have now moved to other venues. Not sure what this bodes for the future of the Las Palmas…
Open through 1969 at least.
December 13, 1973: “The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men’s room.”
Closed December of 1999. This leaves no more adult theaters in Orange County, as the Pussycat in Buena Park was closed in 1998 or so.
This is actually in New Jersey, not Orange CA. Blah!
Tally also ran Tally’s New Broadway Theatre (428 South Broadway), another Tally’s Electric Theatre (262 South Main Street; both in Los Angeles), and Tally’s Theatre (904 State Street) in Santa Barbara.
Just a few doors down from the now-gutted-for-retail Mann Hastings 3 / Mann Hastings Ranch Triplex / Pasadena Hastings Tri-Plex, this theatre boasts a 60-foot screen (in a spacious, if cold, auditorium) and use to be a 5-plex. It was split into 8 screens in 1994, but you can still see evidence of its former life as a 5-plex on some of the placards just before you go into the far auditoriums. There also use to be a Hastings Drive-In Theatre at Rosemead & Foothill in Pasadena, but that’s another story.
This theatre is now a nightclub.
The street address should be changed from Market to Main Street.
This theatre is located at 5959 Hollywood Boulevard.
I think it was just a board burp, Charles. Has anyone thought of these churches that take over old theatres as simply place-sitters for the time being?
The Tomkat was indeed a Pussycat (it had a long-running engagement of “Deep Throat”). There may still be one Pussycat up in Sacramento, but they’re mostly all gone now.
Come to think of it, the Monica / Tomkat also has a turnstile entrance.
This should be 4335 Glencoe Avenue, not 4935. Also known as UA Cinema 6, UA Marina, and the Marina del Rey 6.
An incredibly impassioned site devoted to the doomed preservation of this theatre can be found here: http://www.positiveenergy.com/YOUsave.html
The address of this theatre, by extension, is 802 South Broadway.