Majestic Theatre
845 South Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
845 South Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
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Originally built as Asher Hamburger’s Majestic Theatre, it opened in November 1908. It was closed and dismantled in 1933.
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Thanks, Joe.
The Majestic was also known as Hamburger’s Majestic, referring to the owner, not to anything available at the concession stand.
This theater can be seen in the Robert Youngson feature “The Golden Age of Comedy”. It is at the beginning of the film and you can see the blade sign and marquee. It is not a clip from “Safety Last”.
Here is a May 1910 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2zn3bg
The scenes in “The Golden Age of Comedy” showing the Majestic Theatre are from the 1924 Mack Sennett comedy short, “Wall Street Blues,” with Billy Bevan and Edgar Kennedy.
Here is a section of a 1909 map:
http://tinyurl.com/6gh5wk
Here’s where the UCLA photo moved:
http://tinyurl.com/bk2ej2
The Harold Lloyd “Safety Last” photo that Joe Vogel linked to back in Oct. 2005 is now here:
http://tinyurl.com/ccs7ds
And ken’s screencap from that movie that he posted in the Tally’s Broadway thread
http://tinyurl.com/52cj4v
I just noticed this photo too!
http://tinyurl.com/37kysro
Just passed by this theater site on Sunday, September 6. The status should be changed from closed to demolished. As is evident from the google maps camera, it is sadly no longer there.
The Film Daily of May 25, 1933, reported that the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles had been closed and dismantled.