Bill Robinson Theatre
4219 S. Central Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
4219 S. Central Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
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This theater was part of a long lost section of movie houses in South Central Los Angeles.
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William Gabel
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When was it demolished?
I’m sure that everyone would like to know the answer to that.
The Robinson theater was located on Central Ave, between 43rd St. and 43rd Pl. on the west side of the street. Directly across the street from the Los Angeles Sentinel news paper, Civic meat market, and Lucy’s Supermarket.
Do you know what year it was demolished?
It was finally torn down after the Sylmar earthquake of 1971. Here is where it used to stand
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Here’s an old theater on the corners of Central and Jefferson Ave. that’s standing.
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I’m sure it hard to have been built around the same time as the Robinson to the north and the Lincoln theater to the south. All three within a few miles of each other, all on Central Ave.
Los Angeleno: The theater on Central at Jefferson is listed at Cinema Treasures as the Florence Mills Theatre. It is the oldest of the three theaters you mention, having been erected in 1912, and known to have been operating as the Globe Theatre in 1914.
Advertised in the LA Times in January 1960. Double feature on 1/22/60 was “Sad Horse” and “Sound & The Fury”. Admission was fifty cents.
Saw the second movie but not the first one.
Here is a larger version of the marquee photo posted by Joe Vogel on 6/3/07:
http://tinyurl.com/cbhpoj