Globe Theatre
744 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
744 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
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Perhaps Mrs. Ichabod Crane.
Now Showing! The Headless Brides!
From the UCLA collection of L.A. Times and Daily News photos, here’s the Globe with the name “Newsreel” on its marquee. The occasion was an April, 1948 demonstration by Costa Rican emigres against their government at home. Down the block, the future Newsreel
Theatre (and former and future Tower Theatre) can be seen with the name “Music Hall” on its vertical sign.
Here is a 1930 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2fasa4
The President was closed in July 1934:
http://tinyurl.com/3a5f26
Here is a September 1928 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2uj499
Here is a 1950 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2xo7pk
Here is a 1947 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics21/00045333.jpg
Here is a July 2007 photo. The letters are back:
http://tinyurl.com/ypkoxw
Maybe you should look in the box office.
Maybe the letters were stolen. Investigators should look for a guy named Bo.
Letters O and B on the right-hand side word GLOBE have fallen off. Not sure if they fell into the street or back behind the marquee.
I remember when the Orion hosted Tecknoclub on Saturday nights.. it was off the hook back then. I moved away for a couple of years and thought about going once I came back, only to find that they had closed the doors (boo-hoo)..
I haven’t been back since they’ve turned it into a “posh” nightclub, but seeing the pictures, even though they’ve made a lot of changes, has brought back some cool ass memories..
I wonder if the narrow alley is still accessible, we all used to go out there, crowded as hell, to get some air, cool off, meet up with some old friends, chill with some new, and smoke.
Now I need to dig out my old pictures, I know I have lots from this place.
PLUR,
RAH! :)
From the LA Public Library:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044363.jpg
CALLING ALL THEATRE / MOVIE ENTHUSIASTS!!!
T'he Los Angeles Theatre' on South Broadway, LA is playing host to the UK television show ‘Dead Famous LIVE’. We are currently looking for people who would like to come along as part of the studio audience.
‘Dead Famous LIVE’ is a studio entertainment show all about Hollywood History and the paranormal. We will be welcoming celebrity guests on to the show and investigating famous locations around Hollywood which are rumoured to be haunted including the Los Angeles Theatre itself.
This is an invaluable chance to get access to the Los Angeles Theatre, the place where Charlie Chaplin’s ‘City Lights’ premiered in 1931 and to have a thoroughly great day out! (And its free!!)
We’re transmitting ‘Live’ back to the United Kingdom so expect it to be exciting and fun!
We will be filming on three days from 11th – 13th November between 11.30am – 4pm. If you are interested in coming on one or all of these days then email me for tickets!
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I look forward to your responses!
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I poked around the front of the theater today. There is still no way to access the theater from the businesses out front. The entrance to the nightclub is in the alley behind the building. Perhaps the Conservancy will offer another tour in the future.
This theatre is now operating as Club 740. Website – with many photographs of a radically altered and cleaned-up interior – is here: http://www.740la.com/
Here is an old postcard which shows part of the theatre in 1931 when it was called the President…and includes a view of Broadway.
any news as to when it will open? anyone?
This theater has had four names: The Morosco, The President (in the 1930s), The Newsreel (in the 1940s, before that name was transfered to the Tower Theatre) and The Globe.
even though its no longer the globe im sure the people that love it as orion think it is just as splendiferous as it was way back when! i know i do. Im sure i will make the trek back down from my cow town in oregon again sometime- yup yup people, orion is really that fantastical.
I also have records of this being referred to (in 1942) as the Newsreel Theatre.
The letters spelling out “Globe” have been removed from the marquee out front but the globe itself remains. Possibly the current club owners had something to do with this. Conversely, the removal of the letters makes it much easier to see “Morosco Theater” printed on the masonry directly above the marquee.
During a Los Angeles Conservancy Broadway tour in 1995 I entered this theater – actually the swap meet that then occupied the space – and I was able to see the magnificent ceiling and balcony. The swap meet remained open until a few years ago and has now been replaced by a single store front. The back area from where the ceiling and balcony could be viewed is now inaccessible to the public.