Liberty 3 Cinemas
4266 Gage Avenue,
Bell,
CA
90201
4266 Gage Avenue,
Bell,
CA
90201
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This former Fox theater opened as the Alcazar Theater in 1925.
It was later known as the Bell Theater and finally the Liberty Theater when it was tripled in 1974. It was closed in the 1980’s and demolished.
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William Gabel
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From the LA Times on 9/14/44:
Fire Sweeps Bell Theater
An early morning blaze in the Alcazar Theater, 4426 Gage Ave., yesterday caused damage of approximately $50,000. A lighted cigarette left in a loge is believed to have started the blaze.
The fire destroyed the entire inside of the building. In an all-night fight, the fire departments of Bell, Maywood and Huntington Park confined the blaze within the theater and saved apartments above from damage. Projection and sound equipment was saved, but the theater screen, stage, seats and other equipment were destroyed. No one was injured.
Is the correct address 4466 or 4426 Gage Ave?
Here is a 1931 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00079/00079552.jpg
Here are photos from 1981 and 1983:
http://tinyurl.com/cldsst
http://tinyurl.com/cp3jtb
The Alpha Theater, the last remaining theater in Bell has been sold. New owner plans to convert building into a restaurant.
There should be an aka of Liberty 3 Cinemas.
It was changed, but not correctly, I don’t think. It should be Cinemas instead of Theaters.
Absolutely. It should be Liberty 3 Cinemas or at the very least Liberty Cinemas.
I use to go to the ALCAZAR when I was a kid. From 1956 to 1960 it was a beautiful theater. Halloween was my favorite time with a real coffin and a live person in it:) What great memories. I think admission was thirty five cents at that time. My how times have changed.
My buddy and me use to sneak in the Alcazar on Friday nights in the late 60’s there was so much crud on the floor are shoes use to stick to it. Saw the movie Klute
there with Jane Fonda. It was my first nipple! God how we loved that place!