If you look at the business listings for this address, you get all kinds of stores, drugs, florists and so on. 17400 may be a general address for a large shopping mall. Subsequently the grocery store may not be housed in the old theater building.
Regarding the opening comments, I believe the El Miro was demolished before the Broadway was built. The El Miro has its own page on CT. Here is a photo of the Broadway from a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/6g6o5n
Those crafty Canadians won’t let me copy this photo so the link won’t fail. Here is the third version of the 1934 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5zvpcl
The demolition video reminded me of those time-elapsed shots on the Discovery Channel where they show a dead zebra turning into a skeleton.
What’s with you and the marquees? Can’t we see the rest of the theater? Gee whiz.
A brief demolition video is here:
http://tinyurl.com/64rwte
I do. Everyone has left for the night here, so I talk to myself.
The link repairman has clocked in:
http://tinyurl.com/5fpewl
This page says late 70s or early 80s:
http://tinyurl.com/6omuxu
So the theater was demolished and replaced by a mini-mall, but no demolition date as of yet? Anyone know?
Very good, thanks.
Why the name? Any ideas? Too far from the beach?
Anybody want to loan me 2K for a ticket?
There was a crappy sequel to Reanimator, but it came out a couple of years later.
Was that from a colonoscopy?
The LAPL just posted a batch of photos from 1971:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073963.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073964.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073965.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073967.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073968.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073969.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073971.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073972.jpg
Here is a 1958 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/68mep5
Here is a 1958 movie ad:
http://tinyurl.com/5tof25
Here are two views, postcard and photo, from the 11/15/07 source:
http://tinyurl.com/6np72h
http://tinyurl.com/5fhpqo
Here is another old photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6p3tgy
Here is the theater’s website:
http://www.midwaydrivein.info/
I posted a 1914 lineup on another DTLA page, but I can’t recall which one. If I come across it I will put it on this page.
If you look at the business listings for this address, you get all kinds of stores, drugs, florists and so on. 17400 may be a general address for a large shopping mall. Subsequently the grocery store may not be housed in the old theater building.
Regarding the opening comments, I believe the El Miro was demolished before the Broadway was built. The El Miro has its own page on CT. Here is a photo of the Broadway from a few years ago:
http://tinyurl.com/6g6o5n
Here is the lineup in 1908:
http://tinyurl.com/2bnoph
Here is a story from today’s LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/5wvhcf
Change “Theatre” to “Tennis” and voila, instant makeover:
http://tinyurl.com/64dcdx