Town Theatre
444 S. Hill Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
444 S. Hill Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
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Was the last pussycat theatre to be open the one on Santa Monica Boulevard?
Razed for a damn McDonalds, man this world is messed up…
Yes, this would be the place. All the movie business was located on Broadway and Main Street. The last theatres to run films on Hill Street were this one the Pussycat, The Warren and the Mayan.
I wonder if this was the first Pussycat theater. I recall reading an interview with David Friedman(co-founder of Pussycat) saying that he opened the first Pussycat on Hill St in the early 1960’s in a theater that was not in business at the time.
The Town Theatre was located at 444 S. Hill Street. (Hill Street near 5th)
When this theatre opened it was known as the Bard’s Hill Street Theatre in 1920. It became the Town in the 1930’s. It was part of a local theatre chain run by Louis L. Bard. Bard’s ran three theatres in the Downtown Los Angeles area. The Hill Street, College and the Olympic. The chain also ran the Vista in East Hollywood, Academy in Pasadena, Glen in Glendale, Garfield in Alhambra and the West Adams Theatre over at Adams & Crenshaw area.