Broadway Theatre
428 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
428 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
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This 400-seat movie house was one of the first theatres operated by Metropolitan Theatres chain from 1923.
The building is now a retail space.
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William Gabel
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Double feature on July 7, 1971, per the LA Times: “Las Piranas” and “Pacto Diabolico”.
It probably shouldn’t be added to Cinema Treasures, as it’s open only two nights a month, but the Broadway Theatre now has a cinematic neighbor of sorts called the Angel City Drive-In. It’s located at 240 W. 4th Street (corner of Broadway), on the upper level parking lot.
The place started out as the Million Dollar Drive-In, on August 25, 2007, and was originally located in the parking lot south of the Alexandria Hotel on Spring Street, with the movie projected onto the wall of the hotel. They soon changed the name to Angel City Drive-In, and the move to 4th Street seems to have been made in 2008.
They use a portable screen which appears to be mounted on the wall of the Judson Rives Building, and the projector will be perched atop a car. Here’s a weblog post from April 13, 2008, which includes a couple of photos of the impromptu drive-in.
There are many references to the Angel City Drive-In on the Internet, and the project has obviously attracted enough patronage to keep it going for two years now. There will never be a movie shown in the Broadway Theatre again, but it’s an interesting twist of fate that there are now movies being shown on the outside wall of its building.
This site has a 1980 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/djyzpt
Here is a 1939 photo from USC:
http://tinyurl.com/ccya44
Here is a 1983 night shot:
http://tinyurl.com/cjeh9o
Here is the theater building today:
http://tinyurl.com/pjtqlg
Here is an expanded view of the photo at the top of the page, from the LAPL:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015242.jpg
I think it’s great when these classic houses upgrade to Spanish language format.
Nice photos.
Street View has been updated to the wrong location. The Broadway was not in the building with the aluminum grill on the upper floors, but in the building next door to the north, the Judson C. Rives Building. The theater entrance was at the south end of the building, and the marquee was where the sign reading Alvarado Clothing is now.