Palace Theater
318 W. Seventh Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
318 W. Seventh Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
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This Palace was the first theater in Los Angeles to have this name. It was built in 1910 in the 300 block of West Seventh Street, on the south side. It’s location was across the alley immediately west of Loew’s State Theatre.
The two theaters were never neighbors, though. In 1920, before the State was opened, the Palace was remodeled into retail space for the Vogue Millinery Company and the Model Cloak and Suit House. The building still exists today as a GNC General Nutrition Center store.
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I still haven’t figured out how to insert links to other theaters on this site, but if you look at some new information I posted for the Palace of Pictures Theater, it talks a little about that theater moving and turning into the Palace at this location.
vokoban: in case nobody has gotten around to answering your question somewhere else (I’ve had a couple of busy days myself), the FAQ about how to add links is right here.
A more complete explanation of UBB code is available here. I’m more accustomed to making links with HTML, myself, and I’m only just now becoming accustomed to the UBB used at Cinema Treasures. The UBB italics and quote tags work here, but I haven’t tried the bullet list and right now is the first time I’ve done bold. I don’t think the site allows images to be displayed on the boards, though.
USC’s digital archive is changing the URL’s of its contents, so the link I posted on October 25, 2005 no longer works. Here is the new link to the photo of 7th Street west from Broadway in 1921.
That is the Palace at 630 s. Broadway. It’s a little run down inside but still beautiful.
Here’s the link to the Palace on Broadway:
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USC has again moved the URL of the photo I first linked to on October 25, 2005 and then on October 7, 2006. So here is 7th Street west from Broadway in 1921 (may the third time be a charm.)
The blue building is 318. GNC is 316. The two businesses may occupy one building.
http://tinyurl.com/5ehq2x
http://tinyurl.com/5vpp73
The County Assessor’s office says that the 5274 sq. ft. building at 316 W. 7th St. was built in 1910, with an effective building date of 1913. The City’s ZIMAS report for the property just says 1910. Both include the addresses 316, 318, and 320 as belonging to the same parcel. All one building. I guess the function should be listed as retail.
Check out “Ncis Los Angeles” In tonights episode the climax takes place in an abandoned theater in L.A. The name of the theater was the Palace. There was a lot of shots. of the auditorium and the theater in general.
Somebody has added a photograph of the Palace Theatre on Broadway to this page. This page is about the earlier Palace on 7th Street. Google Street View has been set to the proper location. The Palace on 7th Street can be seen in this photo. The building is still standing, and currently houses two retail stores, one of them a GNC store.
USC has changed the url’s of its photos yet again, so all the earlier links to their pages are dead. I’m just not going to link to the USC archive anymore. It could well be the most unreliable photo web site on the Internet.