Fox Figueroa Theatre
4011 S. Figueroa Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90037
4011 S. Figueroa Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90037
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The Fox Figueroa Theatre was built in 1925. The architect was W.S. Hebbard. The theatre was mentioned in issues of the magazine Southwest Builder & Contractor of ½/25, 2/27/25, and 12/11/25. William Sterling Hebbard (1868-1930) was a San Diego architect, who sometimes worked in partnership with Irving Gill.
CALLING ALL THEATRE / MOVIE ENTHUSIASTS!!!
T'he Los Angeles Theatre' on South Broadway, LA is playing host to the UK television show ‘Dead Famous LIVE’. We are currently looking for people who would like to come along as part of the studio audience.
‘Dead Famous LIVE’ is a studio entertainment show all about Hollywood History and the paranormal. We will be welcoming celebrity guests on to the show and investigating famous locations around Hollywood which are rumoured to be haunted including the Los Angeles Theatre itself.
This is an invaluable chance to get access to the Los Angeles Theatre, the place where Charlie Chaplin’s ‘City Lights’ premiered in 1931 and to have a thoroughly great day out! (And its free!!)
We’re transmitting ‘Live’ back to the United Kingdom so expect it to be exciting and fun!
We will be filming on three days from 11th – 13th November between 11.30am – 4pm. If you are interested in coming on one or all of these days then email me for tickets!
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I look forward to your responses!
This theatre had the biggest projection room I have ever seen – booth nothing, it was a county seat!
Perhaps someone who remembers the Fox Figueroa can clear up something for me. I have only one vivid memory of this theatre, but it is from very early, when I was no more then six or seven years old, and I’m not sure it is accurate. I remember that we were driving along one or the other of the streets on which the Figueroa was located, on a Saturday afternoon, and I saw a large crowd of people waiting at the box office. The image I have in my mind is that the theatre was set back quite a way from one street, or both of them, so there was a sort of plaza at the corner of the intersection. It also seems to me that the theatre building was “L” shaped, partly enclosing this area. But maybe it was just a very wide sidewalk on that block, and a narrower sidewalk on the next block down. The pictures of the theatre that I’ve seen are all closeups, so they don’t tell me if my image of the place is accurate. Does anyone remember the way the Figueroa was situated on its corner?
The Fox Figueroa Theatre was located on a corner lot, so that is why you have two addresses for the theatre.
Not to be confused (like some old boards occasionally do) with the Figueroa Theatre at 4011 South Figueroa Street (near Martin Luther King Boulevard), operating in 1942.
When the Fox Figueroa Theatre opened it had a Wurlitzer Theatre organ (opus#1162) style 235, it was installed on 9/29/1925.
The original address for the Fox Figueroa Theatre was 508 W. Santa Barbara Ave. The Marquee enterance was on the Figueroa side of the building. It had a very nice Art Deco lobby.