Imperial Theatre
319 E. Ocean Boulevard,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
319 E. Ocean Boulevard,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
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Like the West Coast Theatre next door, the 820-seat Imperial Theatre was a Fox house.
This theatre was razed, like the West Coast Theatre, to make way for a new hotel complex.
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No, it’s a monthly service. The film in question supposedly depicted murders of real people. I think someone admitted later that the deaths were all staged.
Here is a November 1973 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/yb8bwbd
Here is a vintage photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y2bacxb
The above picture in ken mc’s post is from around January 1932. The West Coast Theatre was playing “Stepping Sisters” (1/9/32) from Fox Film Corp. and the Imperial Theatre was playing “The False Madonna” (12/5/31) with Kay Francis & Conway Tearle from Paramount.
You can see the UA down the street as well.
The Imperial is to the right of the train in this photo, probably circa 1940s:
http://tinyurl.com/262l5vd
Nice photo ken mc.
TLsloews you gotta go back to the UNICORN THEATRE site.
The Imperial Theatre was part of the Fox West Coast Theatre chain from the mid 1920’s through National General Cinemas to Mann Theatres which closed the house in August 1977. It went independent after that year.
earthquake shot, (postcard I bought) http://www.flickr.com/photos/smgerdes/5740195797/in/photostream