Dorkel Theatre
1013 E. Seventh Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90021
1013 E. Seventh Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90021
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A Merryland Theatre is listed at 1015 E. Seventh Street in the 1915 L.A. City Directory.
No, that’s probably the winner. I hope the ranch was a success.
Anything more trivial in Boxoffice?
Breaking news from Boxoffice magazine, January 1938:
Min Orthel is Columbia’s new cashier, replacing M.J. Dodge, who resigned last week to start a chicken ranch in Arcadia.
Hard to imagine a movie theater in this depressing part of downtown. Things must have been very different back then.
Here is the 1930 LA Times ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2erxqx
There’s another reference to the Merryland in 1930, per the LA Times, so it was probably the Merryland first, then changed to Columbia sometime in the thirties, and then lastly the unfortunately named Dorkel Theater, probably in the early forties.
Operated as the Columbia through 1945 at least.
Listed as the Columbia at 1013 E. 7th in the 1939 directory, so that’s another aka.
Listed in the 1942 city directory:
http://tinyurl.com/2p2vzo
The Merryland Theater was advertised in the LA Times on 9/2/23 at 1015 E. 7th Street. This is probably an aka for the Dorkel.
The Dorkel has been replaced by low income housing.