Hippodrome Theatre
320 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
320 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
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You mean people just defecate in the streets around there? And people are going to live there? LOL.
Here is a 1976 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lnc2ns
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cnn3yj
The Barclay was originally the Van Nuys.
Got it.
No, the Barclay is the hotel on the northwest corner of 4th and Main. The Hippodrome was on the other side of Main, about halfway down the block going north. The new condo complex is taking over the Westiminster site and part of the old Hippodrome site. When they were breaking up the concrete for the condos, some old theater tiles were uncovered in the process.
Is Barclay another name for the Hippodrome Theater?
I agree-sidestepping all that gets me pooped out.
I’ll have to find one of my pictures from a few years ago and compare. I used to walk by there every day but I’ve stopped because of the human defecation covering the sidewalk between Los Angeles and Main on 4th…..I take a different route now.
I thought they were installing a new sign because the old one had a lot of rust holes. Maybe they just sandblasted it.
Is it a new sign or the old sign restored? It looks very similar although cleaner.
Gentrification at 4th & Main-new sign for the Barclay, condos going up on former Westminster site:
http://tinyurl.com/b7hglq
http://tinyurl.com/bk49mw
Maybe some hyperbole. I don’t think anyone was counting.
It had 3000 seats in 1914, or so they claim.
Here is an LA Times ad dated 1/16/14:
http://tinyurl.com/66wukl
Here is an excerpt from an LA Times article dated 8/13/61:
Sale of a parking lot, site of the old Hippodrome Theater on Main Street, for $400,000 has been announced. Harrison Memorial Trust acquired the site from Joseph Miller.
The Hippodrome Theater, built in the early 1900s, had the largest stage on the West Coast and provided circus-type entertainment with many large animal acts. The theater portion was demolished in 1952 because of the demand for automobile parking in that area.
The concrete foundation under the new construction extends into the dirt pile. I was looking at it today and was wondering if that was part of the old foundation for the theater building. I doubt if the builders would lay that out and then pour dirt all over it.
http://tinyurl.com/6dchsy
I tried a search under Adolphus instead of hippodrome and found the proofs. I think the vantage point would be from the Follies, which may have either still been in existence or alternatively was recently demolished. I’ve seen Follies photos from the LAPL as late as 1973.
Did the library add some new material? I love the 1974 photos!
That pretty much wraps it up. Thanks.
The expanded view of the photo at the top of the page shows the adjoining businesses. Prohibition would have still be in effect in 1928, so I’m not sure what kind of brew the business on the left was selling.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015345.jpg
Here are a couple of proofs from 1974. You can see the gym taking over the entire second floor:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015199.jpg
Absolutely. Thanks so much.
They do match up pretty closely.
I think you’re right ken.
Can you just explain to me what it is that your trying to get at?