Fox West Coast Theatre
333 E. Ocean Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
333 E. Ocean Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
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The West Coast Theatre opened on July 7, 1925, and was situated next to the Fox Imperial Theatre.
Closed in November 1985, this Fox theatre had a large going away party before it was to be razed. The last film to play this theatre at that party was “Footlight Parade”.
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William Gabel
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1982 Photo
Here is a December 1959 ad from the Long Beach Independent:
http://tinyurl.com/quwyfo
This is another 1983 photo.
Here is a photo circa 1920s from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081582.jpg
The West Coast can be seen in this 1968 photo from the Long Beach Library:
http://tinyurl.com/26rpeas
Nice photo too bad the bus is in the way.
There’s a “Fox West Coast” roof sign on the right of this photo:
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Now to figure out what the theatre in the foreground is…
It is the United Artists Long Beach Theater /theaters/2032/, a lovely art deco theater that was torn down probably in the early 1980s. There’s a picture here: View link
Here’s a couple of hand bills from the rock concert era:
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The Long Beach United Artists was demolished sometime between Spring, 1981 and Summer, 1982. I remember seeing it still standing and operating in ‘81, but I had no camera with me. When I returned to take photos of Long Beach theatres in mid-Summer, 1982, it was gone. The Roxy, State, Palace, Imperial, and Fox West Coast were still there, and I shot them except the State, which I happened not to notice, I believe, because the marquee was gone, and I didn’t remember it from my early childhood.