Pico Theatre
736 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
736 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
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Worthpoint displays a real photo postcard of the Navarro Theatre. The theater was showing the Mary Pickford movie Lena and the Geese, which IMDb says was released on July 17, 1912. The Navarro, being a neighborhood house, probably got the film somewhat later. The single-story building featured an ornate, arched theater entrance flanked by two storefronts.
My father’s diary entry for May 3, 1923 (he was sixteen): May 3, Couldn’t locate Mr. Shields. Went to the Navarro with mother to see Colleen Moore in “The Ninety and Nine.”
More on the Musart:
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Let me know if you unearth anything else on it!
Never mind….I guess the Egan was a live theater that later became the Musart. It was at 1320 S. Figueroa.
Anyone know anything about the Egan Theater? I don’t see it on here.
(July 31, 1926 LA Times)
EGAN THEATER
Figueroa At Pico
WHITE COLLARS The Barnum of Them All
NOW 120TH WEEK
MATS. WED. & SAT.. 50cents to $1
July 1, 1915, LA Times:
SEE IRVING CUMMINGS
In The Greatest Of All Photoplays
The Diamond From The Sky
Navarro Theater
738 W. Pico St., L.A.
Still the Navarro in the 1915 city directory.
Don’t forget the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital took up a lot of space on the Georgia block as well. The Cinematour may have been a fly-by-night place.
Listed in the 1929 City Directory as the Pico. The 700 W. block begins at Figueroa, and the 900 block began at Georgia Street, so this place must have been closer to Figueroa than to Georgia. The 1923 ad ken mc linked to must have been for a different theater.
Possibly another aka in 1923:
http://tinyurl.com/34f7cs
Listed in the 1914 directory as the Navarro.
Listed in the 1925 city directory as the New West Pico Theater.
The Convention Center has been built on the site of the former Pico.