California Theatre
6528 Pacific Boulevard,
Huntington Park,
CA
90255
6528 Pacific Boulevard,
Huntington Park,
CA
90255
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Opened in 1925, the former Fox California Theatre was triplexed in the mid 1980’s. The lobby has the same gold mural that is inside the lobby of the Village Theatre in Westwood.
It closed in 2006.
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William Gabel
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You may be right. I saw some similarities to the California in the closest building to to the right, but I’m no architectural expert.
Here is a June 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2huvga
Here is another 2007 photo. Shouldn’t there be an aka name of California 3 Theatres?
I agree.
That makes it a majority of two. I think you need at least five to get the name added. :)
I drove by there last week, and the sign says California 2 Theatres. I guess they lost a screen sometime in the past few months.
If they’ve altered signage while the place is closed, that suggests a possible re-opening, doesn’t it? Otherwise, why bother making the change?
The county assessor’s office treats this as 6524 S.Pacific, but it’s definitely the same property. The year of construction was 1925, which matches with the item in Southwest Builder & Contractor issue of January 4, 1924, which said that architects Arthur George Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk were preparing plans for the theatre.
Lindley & Selkirk were best known for designing churches, but there are two other theatres which can be attributed to them. They did the original Egyptian-style design for the Alexander Theatre in Glendale, and they were the architects of the Glendale Masonic Temple, which includes the Temple Theatre. Not a bad résumé.
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d4zjw3
The site should add to the aka California 3 Theatre since it operated and advertised under that name.
well my daddys office is located in the building and its still intact =–)