Jewel Theater
3817 Whittier Boulevard,
East Los Angeles,
CA
90023
3817 Whittier Boulevard,
East Los Angeles,
CA
90023
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Opened in the 1921, the Jewel Theater was a neighborhood theater located by Whittier Boulevard and Indiana Street.
Closed in the 1960’s, it was best known for its familiar neon jewel on the marquee.
Contributed by
Bill Housos
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The web site Silent Era lists a Jewel Theatre, with 700 seats, at 3829 Whittier Boulevard, operating in 1925. The source cited is Film Daily’s Film Year Book for 1926, page 485, with additional information provided by Lars Hedlind. Perhaps the discrepancy in address is the result of a remodeling which moved the entrance, or a street renumbering? Or perhaps the original theatre was destroyed, and replaced by this building in the 1930s?
Ruben’s Garment Cutting currently resides at 3817 Whittier Boulevard.
There was a Jewel Theater in Tujunga in the 1920’s, according to this photo from the Oviatt Library Digital Collection.
ken mc: If you want to post a link that has a bare URL as long as this one, I’d suggest using the tinyurl redirection service to shrink it. That way it won’t make the page too wide.
Alternately, you can eclose the URL in UBB code, in which the URL will vanish from the page, and your link will show as a name, as in the links I’ve made in this comment.
This is how your picture link would look in UBB code: Jewel Theatre, Tujunga, 1925.
Thanks for the website, Joe. I will work on that.
The Jewel was listed at 3817 Whittier on 4/9/42, per the LA Times.
Here is a May 1948 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2le4h4
Here is a November 1947 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/cfgcdm
Scroll down for a 1958 LA Times story about gang members and the Jewel Theater:
http://tinyurl.com/oztzvx
An article about wall and floor coverings in the January 8, 1938, issue of Boxoffice featured a photo of the foyer of the Jewel Theatre.