Roxie Theatre
518 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
518 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
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This was the last theater to be built on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. It has an Art Deco facade and a small tower with a vertical “Roxie” sign. The inside is a little less impressive.
Metropolitan Theaters ran this theater mostly as a Spanish-language house. A store now occupies the Roxie’s former lobby.
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A couple curent interior photos of this theatre can be seen at flickr.com.
Just type in Roxie Theatre, Los Angeles.
Go to page 3 and scroll down and click on the second picture for a shot on the main auditorium with a partial view of the left side of the proscenium and screen.
Click on the first small picture on the right to see a nice side wall view of the Roxie auditorium.
These are the first current color interior photos that I have seen of the Roxie.
Those are pretty neat. The box office being dropped in the middle of the orchestra section is a unique touch:
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Here is an August 1974 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/pepvd4
Here is a night shot from 1983:
http://tinyurl.com/qpwdb5
Here is the Roxie looking better than usual:
http://tinyurl.com/y5re637
Swap meet bonanza:
http://tinyurl.com/y54n3ah
A great 30s view with the Roxie marquee still using milk glass letters:
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It’s in post #9 on a Jalopy Journal Forum:
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Anyone have any idea what archive this photo comes from? I can’t make out the title on the marquee but it appears it’s something with Kay Francis.
The Roxie looks pretty sad these days especially now that some moron went and graffitied over the Roxie letters on the tower above the theatre. I’m not sure what you do with all these old cinemas on Broadway now that everyone stays home with VOD and Netflix.
Here are a few photos I took today of the Roxie: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokoban/6693424923/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokoban/6693425389/in/photostream/
The Roxie, or at least a good shot of its terazzo and a few glimpses of the marquee, is seen in “The Muppets” (the 2011 movie), as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWWTW1P8rQ