Lido Theatre
8507 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90035
8507 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90035
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wow….thanks for posting those! so was the BofA right against the real estate place in the photo? how in the heck did you put a photo on cinema treasures in the actual posting?
it worked fine,thanks haineshisway
Did the link work for the second one? If not, I’ll do what I did and post the other photos directly.
Let’s see if this works differently, but at least there’s a photo above. Next would be:
<img src=“http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/whitesheik/lido2.jpg” alt=“Lido circa early 1960s”>
Let’s see if THIS works:
Maybe you need to set up an account? Let me see what the deal is.
it says i need a password?
Someone let me know that it worked. Thanks.
Gee, it might help to include the link! http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v147/whitesheik/
Okay, let’s see if this works – I’ve uploaded two great photos of the Lido – if these work, I’ll upload another.
I would love to see a photo of any of these theaters. The only photo I had seen of the Lido was on haineshisway’s book until that other book came out and had another photo.
I don’t think the Picfair was gray originally. I think I saw my first movie there around 1954 or 1955 and was there most Saturdays for the kiddie matinee – a double bill, cartoons, coming attractions, a Stooges short, and sometimes they’d do serials every week. I think you’ll find there’s a listing for the Picfair on this site. I was always intrigued by the little studio there, and eventually when I became an actor I shot two shows there. Go know. Back to the Lido – back in the day, the northeast corner of Pico and La Cienega had a pharmacy there for years. To the east of that was Big Town Market (where I had my very first slice of pizza), and directly east of Big Town was a Ralph’s Five and Ten Cent Store (and you could enter it FROM Big Town. On the south side of the street just east of La Cienega, was a terrific Chinese restaurant called Wan-Q. On Sherbourne and Pico, just a couple of blocks from the Lido, on the northeast corner was a hamburger joint called Kentucky Boys – it’s now a mortuary! But the building, a diner, is exactly the same. Across from that was Leo’s Delicatessan. I lived on Sherbourne, between Airdrome and 18th, and went to Crescent Heights, Louis Pasteur, and then Hamilton High.
i remember the picfair well,i was about 13 when they tore it down.but i remember it was a 2 story building and it was grey.the studio across the street from it was called cartyh studios and it was in the same design as the picfair.most of the people on my old street(spaulding ave)have lived there for 45+ yrs,so next time im in la ill ask for some pics.
As said, the Picfair was on the north side of Pico and a little bit west of Fairfax. It was always the rattiest of the three nabes on Pico (the Picfair, Lido, and Stadium). As I said above in a post a couple of years ago, all three theaters play prominent roles in my first three novels and the Lido adorns the cover of the first of them. Interestingly, while I have a few photos of the Lido and the Stadium, I’ve never been able to find a photo of the Picfair. The best of the three theaters was the Stadium, which had a nice big screen and stereo sound.
no prob.
thanks so much for that….now it makes sense.
no the vons was a safeway it turned into a vons around 90 or 91.the picfair was a grey kinda artdeco building,very similar to the studio on the same side of the street.it was right next to the laudry matt,theres a newer brick building there now,but on the other corner(not fairfax)was a shoe repair shop that was there til they tore it down,my mom use to go there alot.so all in all it was on the northwest corner lot.
can you tell me which corner the Pickfair was located? I’ve looked at the Sanborn maps and Pico & Fairfax used to not go smoothly through. It looks like you used to have to stop and then jog over to continue on Fairfax. Now it has been changed to curve so it is continuous. I don’t know if it was where Von’s is now or across the street on the southwest corner.
same here,i went to schools in both areas in the early 90s(cresent hieghts,and carthy elementry)i grew up further south near pico and fairfax(i remember the picfair as an appliance store).
My neighborhood was the first or one of the first HPOZ’s and they are very touchy about anything new. Frankly, I don’t see Trader Joe’s as bringing a bad element to any neighborhood.
i just saw the pic of the lido,and man that was an awsome looking house.i can see the area not wanting a trader joes there.thats a boarderline neighborhood(super nice on the north with the south carthy south area)and kinda not so good on the south(i.e. the 7-11 going south where alot of apartment buildings are).i wonder how long the mint club has been there.
I don’t know, Two Buck Chuck is pretty addictive.
They were supposed to open a Trader Joe’s in that big art deco building on the corner but the idiots in my neighborhood nixed it because they sell alcohol. Yeah….I really see a lot of wino’s standing around the parking lot at Trader Joe’s.
o ok cool,so the next closet theatre was either the fox stadium or picfair.nicks has great food!but yea that would make since for a local house,i remember when they wanted to tear down the building on the other corner which was a cvc,sav on and now 20 20 video,but they saved it.thanks vokoban
charlie
It was in the bofa parking lot on Pico right west of La Cienega. I went to Nick’s for breakfast across the street and showed the picture to one of the regulars and he showed me right where the theater was. He said he used to go there all the time when he was a child.