Music Box Theatre

I happened to be at a memorial service at the Pix, uh, the Music Box at the Henry Fonda this evening. It actually sort of turned my stomach to be in a theater with no seats. I saw a lot of movies at the Pix, probably starting in the mid-60s all the way through when it went Spanish. When it was turned back into a legit theater, its original proscenium, which is fairly small, was used. It took me a few minutes of staring and nosing around to figure out things – clearly the original proscenium was not used when the theater converted to widescreen. What they did, in fact, was put a new screen, masking, and curtains in FRONT of the old proscenium, completely covering it from view. That gave them a pretty good sized scope screen, and I’m sure the Cinemiracle screen was installed that way, too. I saw Cat Ballou there, a sneak preview of Woman Of Straw, Torn Curtain, Jaws and many others. As I said in a post above, if you want to see that glorious Pix marquee in all its nighttime glory, simply rent or purchase the DVD of The First Nudie Musical and watch The Lights And The Smiles musical number. I directed the film and we shot it all over 1975 Hollywood Blvd. Great shots of the Hollywood Theater and the Pix and the rest of the boulevard.

Here is a recent shot of the marquee.

Here are some March 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/28du82
http://tinyurl.com/ywqe5h
http://tinyurl.com/2as55d
http://tinyurl.com/ytspko

That was a couple of albums ago. You’ve got to get up to speed.

Here is a view of the box office, circa 1974:
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OK, thanks.

Is that a good wow or a bad wow? I liked the picture myself.

Here is an undated photo of the marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/3bco7u

There is a nice color photo of the Pix on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/28y78r

Bullitt with Steve McQueen was released in October of 1968 and Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway was released in August of 1967.

Here is another photo of the Music Box/Henry Fonda Theater.

The Pix’s marquee dates back to when it was called the FOX Theatre. It was a Great marquee once. (A Lot of movement)

Ken mc, Before the Pacific’s Pix closed it ran spanish films. The spanish films moved over to the Vine Theatre for awhile before returning to $2.00 dollar tickets. Around that time the World Theatre closed.