Palace Theatre
30 Pine Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
30 Pine Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90802
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Opened on September 30, 1916. The Palace Theatre seated 850 people and was popularly known as the Newsreel Theatre. When it was the News-Palace Theatre it was a Fox house.
In its later years, it ran as a grind house. It was closed in 1984, and razed in the late-1980’s.
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William Gabel
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The Palace closed on 03.19.84. I had to turn off the marquee the next day with sadness. We ran a mix of films there all in triple bill format. Martial arts, horror , and once in awhile a 3-D movie which took extra work to set up. The balcony was closed the entire time I was mgr/projectionist. The site is now part of a parking structure for a hotel. I remember the 5 years or so I worked there fondly but VCR rentals pretty much spelled the end as much as redevelopment. The first sound movie shown in LB was shown there, I even met the electrician that put in the system and he was in his 80’s then. The orchestra pit was sealed off and very small and under the paint the vents for the air system were exotic hardwod. I still have some momentos of the place, the very last film shown there was “Children of the Corn”.
The date given for this photo is May 1980.
Nice looking marquee.How many Palace Theatres were there in the U.S.?
ONE was in Athens , Georgia and it is on CT, tisloews. Happy New year. I am BACK.
Same to you Mike, Never had a Palace in Nashville that I know of. There was a Loews Palace in Memphis though. Elvis worked at the Loews State there.He got fired I have heard.
Tisloews,if you go to the PALACE theatre in Athens i have reprinted some old City manager letters to other managers.Found the letters in the MILLER theatre filing cabnets years ago.
Here’s a 1920s photo that shows the Palace on the right.
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I remember this theatre. For a theatre named Palace it was a damned small theatre alright.
I worked at the Palace from 1953 to 1955. It was a clean will managed theater. They showed the “Outlaw with Jane Russell” Other theaters thought it was to raw to show. It ran for 2 weeks and had big crowds.
A “Orange Julius” was also run by the theater. I worked there too.
Sometime ate lunch at the Panama Cafe south of the theater.
A night postcard view looking north on Pine Ave. The Palace is on the right:
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It’s part of a post by Beaudry on the Skyscraperpage forum “Noirish Los Angeles:
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