Fox Stadium Theatre

The Fox Stadium Theatre is located at 8906 W. Pico Blvd.

The Fox Stadium Theatre opened in 1931.

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This theatre has been a synagogue for over 30 years.

The former Stadium Theater underwent major exterior renovations in 2004, and is once again a handsome building.

Here is a brief history & photo from the synagogue's homepage:
http://www.bnaidavid.com/about_history.html

I like this one very much

From the California State Library:

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1841.jpg

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1830.jpg

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1835.jpg

Here are some photos of the interior, from the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015457.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015462.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015455.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015460.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015459.jpg

Some additional photos from the California State Library:

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1828.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1829.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1831.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1832.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1833.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1834.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1836.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1837.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1838.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1839.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1840.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1842.jpg
http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mott-merge/1992-1843.jpg

Here are some more contemporary photos from Cinematour:
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/12172.html

Great pix! The Stadium was my favorite childhood movie theater, and it plays a huge role in a fictional trilogy of books I wrote about my childhood growing up in that neighborhood in the late 50s. I spent the most time there, as they had the best Cinemascope screen and stereo sound - I saw everything there - 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Carousel, The King and I, The Searchers, Village of the Damned, The Time Machine, The Last Voyage, Daddy Long Legs, The Naked Edge (one of the last films to play there), North By Northwest and on and on and on. A fabulous theater. When it was turned into a synagogue I was so upset that I stopped going to Temple and have not been inside a Temple since. Funny, huh?

Here is a photo, circa 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/mrda7

Here are a few more photos from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/ye8qon
http://tinyurl.com/ygfov9
http://tinyurl.com/ykwckb

I was never even aware of this former theater during the time I was living in Los Angeles -- nor of any stadium in the vicinity for which it might have been named.

Does anyone know the origin of the name? Interestingly enough, the theater's auditorium is an early example of "stadium" seating (i.e., a steeply raked faux balcony section behind the main orchestra level). But that's just a coincidence -- isn't it?

Only a few theatres had that type of auditorium design in Los Angeles area. This is the only Fox house that I remember with this design. The El Miro Theatre in Santa Monica and I think the Rialto Theatre on Broadway in Downtown.

Beverly Hills Speedway, west of Rodeo, south of Wilshire, had the only large stadium in the area that I know of. That photo is ca.1920, and the place lasted until 1924 when increasing value of the land in the area led the the track's operators to move to a cheaper location near Culver City. They probably made a bundle subdividing the land. Here's an aerial view, about 1921.

The Speedway is now the site of the Beverly Wilshire hotel.

man thoese seats look super comfy.i wonder if they are still there.

At one time the Fox Wilshire had nice Deluxe loge seats like that too. Select Fox houses had nice loge type seats. (Criterion SM, Mesa LA, those are the ones I remember seeing pictures of)

The Stadium is the only pre-war Los Angeles area Fox house with a stadium section that I can recall, but I remember a few more that were built in the 1940s, including the Culver, the Loyola, the Fox in Inglewood, and the Crest in Long Beach. I think there were others, but my memory refuses to jog.

Yes, those were the other ones that were the pre-fab design with the Crest Theatre in Long Beach being the first one tobe built.

Here is a June 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6elcdx

Your photography skills have improved immensely.

Here's an early 50s shot of the Stadium, looking west on Pico. My favorite neighborhood theater. I've also uploaded photos of the Lido, the Bruin, the Wiltern, and the Vogue all from the 50s and 60s.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/whitesheik/stadium.jpg

I didn't know about the retail in the front. Interesting.

Can anybody read the movie title on the marquee?

Main feature is Distant Drums with Gary Cooper - can't quite make out the second feature, although one of the words looks like "marriage". That means the photo is circa 1951

"The Model and the Marriage Broker". Nancy Kulp's first film role. She was Jane Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies.

Nice work guys. That places both movies as late 1951.

Here are the USC photos:
http://tinyurl.com/yd3vqke
http://tinyurl.com/yclr4ay
http://tinyurl.com/ybfy3nm
http://tinyurl.com/yb8d93v