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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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!
I worked at the Alcazar from 1952-1957 changing the marquee and as doorman. I started at .75 an hour as doorman and split $6 three ways for a year changing the marquee. Eventually I endured the departure of my friends and got the whole $6 a week for learning how to spell correctly actors names and titles (correctly). I remember my most difficult title word was “Pharaohs” for the movie “The Land of the Pharaohs.” Most difficult name was Barbara Stanwyck. I was so dedicated to the job that I started changing the California Theatre in Huntington Park also. It paid $10 a week. I got free passes for my friends too. Sometimes I’d charge them a cheaper price than the ticket… Mr. Rankin was the projectionist and I’d have to bring down the out going film in big cans. The theatre manager would have us paint the theatre lobby occasionally and change the posters. The posters had to be sent back after use, but I had to keep my favorite movie posters, “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without a Cause.” I continued changing marquees all over L.A. until 2007. I worked at the Universal CityWalk Cinemas from 1987 to 2007 and was being paid $330 weekly. Among all the other employments I had at the same time, I made more money changing marquees, than acting, directing, teaching, TV cue-cards, chicken truck driving, and modeling… I even have an old Alcazar check that was never cashed for $6.