Carmel Theatre
8163 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
8163 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
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Opened by West Coast Theatres in November 1924, it became known as the Fox Carmel Theatre.
In later years, it was renamed Carmel Museum Theatre and finally Paris Theatre, screening XXX adult films. It was destroyed by a fire in January 1976.
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William Gabel
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Ed: Yes, that’s the Paris, formerly Carmel, on Santa Monica Boulevard. Compare the marquee in this 1970s night shot from the UCLA/L.A. Times archives (this is the same photo brett421 linked to on May 16. UCLA has changed the URLs of its photos and his link no longer works.)
Thanks, Joe! Looks like we have a match!
I moved the image here so that my album was correct – so the old link above no longer works.
Thanks again!
Here is a January 1965 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2xln65
Here is a 1970 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2b2gkz
The Commune with Eric Berne and John Chavez was released in March of 1970.
Post-Manson family. Strike while the iron is hot.
Here’s an exterior view of the Paris Theatre in 1969: View link
Listed as the Carmel Museum Theatre in the 1956 L.A. City Directory (see also ken mc’s comment of January 5, 2007, above, citing the same name.)
Also, the New Vic at the Carmel Theatre in 1957.
View link
but i wish that collection had outside photos
You can see the Paris Theatre in the background in a scene from the episode “Anatomy of Two Rapes” from the TV show “Police Woman” (First Season-1974). It happens around 17 mins into the episode.