Apollo Theatre
5544 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
5544 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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The Apollo Theatre was opened in 1921. Fox’s Apollo Theatre was located on Hollywood Boulevard near Western Avenue.
It seated 600 people and was destroyed by fire in December 1976. It has since been razed.
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William Gabel
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Soft Skin on Black Silk was first released in Spain in June of 1959.
There is still polished concrete on the sidewalk in front of where this theater once stood.
My father was assistant manager there sometime in the early 40s. He painted the posters that went in the frames on each side of the box office as well as placards for the lobby. At age 3, they tell me I used to play out front. Nice to see so much about the old theatre.
This is where I worked when I met Louis Federici. It was named the Star at that time. We were exhibiting nudist films and had a sell out audience on weekends. It was owned by an attorney and another “gentle"man, that I could never stand. They phoned the theater hourly to see how many tickets had been sold. I finally got fed up with the "gentle"man and quit. And was hired at the Hollywood Theater for the second time. This was around 1959-1960.
fscscott, the polished concrete on the sidewalk is called terrazzo.
Shalom, buballa! Who can forget the “Star” Theater’s 49 cents days, and the ebullience of the recorded message when you’d call in. Saw It Came From Outer Space in 3D here, as well as less memorable pictures such as Butterflies Are Free. Great theater; sorry to hear it’s immolated.
Does the Cinne Arts adult theatre a block or two away from the Apollo count as a movie theater?
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-DB; I have now added a page for the Cinne Arts Theatre:
/theaters/34783/
It’s interesting how the Apollo and the Century burned to the extent that both were destroyed. The Apollo didn’t appear to be a firetrap, and I was there just about every week from 1972 to 1974.
I was in a bar one Saturday night and it was packed. At around 10:30, they stopped the music and said that they were closing for the evening. An hour later, a fire destroyed the whole building.
Kinda makes you wonder.
The February 9, 1921, issue of The Film Daily ran this item about the Apollo Theatre: