Tally's Broadway Theatre
833 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
833 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
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Doesn’t this start overlapping in time with Talley’s?
(Jan. 18, 1910)
Hamburger’s-Safest Place To Trade-Broadway, Eighth and Hill Streets
LIVING DOLLS
We have in our Arrow Theater real, living, human dolls, as a special attraction for women and children. It’s a great act. “it is to laugh.” 5 cents.
I wonder if this Arrow Theater should have its own page or if its the same.
(Oct. 16, 1909)
Hamburger’s-Safest Place To Trade-Broadway, Eighth and Hill Streets
THE ARROW THEATER
“Always a good show,” but this week a little better show, than usual. Somehow the pictures seem to have been chosen with especial good fortune. See them. General, 5c; reserved, 10c.
(Sept. 20, 1909)
Dr. Edgar L. Hewitt of Washington D.C., director of the School of American Archaeology, will lecture before the Southwest Society tomorrow evening. The lecture will be delivered at the Arrow Theater, Hamburger building, entrance N. 820 West Eighth street.
Don’t say ‘Bull Clapp’ too quickly….
(Feb. 22, 1909)
Prof. Edward Bull Clapp, head of the Greek department of the University of California, and, last year, professor in the Classical School in Athens, will give his very interesting illustrated lecture on “New Light on Greek Painting,” in the Arrow Theater, Hamburger building, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening.
(Jan 5, 1909)
Hamburger’s-Safest Place To Trade-Broadway, Eighth and Hill Streets
Don’t Miss the Arrow Theater
A delightful place to spend and hour or two
Only Costs 5c
Is this a previous theater or the same theater? It predates:
(Nov. 1, 1908)
The Royal Arcanum Minstrels gave an entertainment last night in Hamburger’s Arrow Theater, under the auspices of the Hamburger Employees' Benefit Society.
(Dec. 19, 1908)
Hamburger’s-Safest Place To Trade-Broadway, Eighth and Hill Streets
Come early-stay all day-lunch here-go to the Arrow Theater. 800 feet of gift suggestions in our show windows.
The King Of Kings was released in 1928….so that’s probably correct.
That last photo is late 1928 or early 1929, I’d say, given the fact that the building is covered in signs announcing its imminent destruction to make way for the expanding May Co. Department Store.
Here is a photo, circa 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/2fhfe7
I see that Joe posted that photo on 12/13/05. Apologies. I thought I had seen it somewhere before.
Here is a photo from the CA state library:
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That probably is the Garrick at the end of the block, plus it looks like the Rialto had been completed, or was nearly complete.
I think you’re correct Joe….also I wonder if the back of the building you can see at 8th would be the Garrick which would be replaced by the Tower.
Ken, I wonder if the boxy building at left foreground in that 1917 photo, across the street and down a bit from Tally’s, was the Woodley/Victory/Mission which was demolished to make way for the fourth Orpheum?
Here is a 1917 photo from the USC archive. Tally’s is on the far left:
http://tinyurl.com/2n7qgs
Period photos show that it was the theatre at 6th Street that was called Tally’s New Broadway. It was also called the Garnett Theatre, but I don’t know during what years.
The full story from the LA Times on 7/7/29 states that Tally’s Broadway was in business from 1910 to 1920 and sat 900. The “New Broadway” succeeded Mr. Tally’s theater at Sixth Street at the present (1929) site of Silverwood’s. The Sixth Street theater sat 500, while Tally’s first theater at Third and Main had a seating capacity of 250.
Maybe we can find Bill Tally and ask him. I think he’s getting on a bit, though.
ken mc: The theatre at 554 S. Broadway actually had the name Tally’s New Broadway displayed on it. I’m not sure that the Broadway Theatre at 428 S. ever had any connection to Tally. Cinema Treasures is the only place I’ve ever seen such a connection asserted. vokoban’s posts of information from the Times archives on Cinema Treasures' Broadway Theatre page show that it opened in 1924 or 1925 and was called (at least in the Times article) the New Broadway Theatre and that by 1926 it was being advertised merely as the Broadway Theatre, no mention of Tally in either case.
There was also the Electric Theater on Main which was sometimes called Tally’s.
So there are two different Tally’s New Broadway theaters, 428 S. and 554 S. Broadway. Is that correct?
End of the road, 7/7/29:
OLD BROADWAY LANDMARK PASSES INTO HISTORY
Ten-Story Building Will Replace Famous Early Motion-Picture Playhouse
PASSING of practically the last of Broadway’s interesting old landmarks took place recently when workmen removed the last of Tally’s “New Broadway” Theater to make way for erection of the new $2,000,000 addition to the May Company’s building between Eighth and Ninth on Broadway.
Maybe they had some extra rooms in the back? This is from the LA Times dated 9/21/27:
Los Angeles City Club luncheon meeting, clubhouse, 833 South Broadway, noon. Alexander Bevanl will speak on “Italy As I Found It Under Mussolini.”
Here is another great photo showing the theater in the background of this 1923 Harold Lloyd picture “Safety Last”. www.doctormacro.com/images/Lloyd,Harold/Lloyd,Harold(SafetyLast)_01/jpg_01/jpg) Look up Lloyd, Harold in Galleries. Photo will be found there.
Here are exterior and interior photos from the LA Library, both for the 833 S. Broadway location:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015466.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015464.jpg