Lyric Theatre

The Lyric was still a family movie house in 1957 when I joined the Navy in the recruiter’s office above the theater. By late 1960, when I was a civilian again and dating an usherette/candy butcher at the Lyric, it was showing somewhat racier film fare, but very mild stuff by present standards. I believe it was located in an unincorporated strip of county land along the borders of South Gate and Huntington Park and it therefor had less-strict zoning laws than those two communities.