Here is a 1946 photo from the LAPL, shortly before demolition. I also have included the caption as there is a reference to another aka, Actor’s Theater. I thought Joe would like that: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070227.jpg
Grand Theatre, located in the Walker Auditorium Building at 750 South Grand Avenue, is to be demolished to make room for a parking lot. Built in 1907 by George W. Walker, the six-story theater was known as the Walker Auditorium and was the home of the theatrical hits of the day. It was renamed the Orange Grove Theater and became a music performance hall. Before being renamed one last time as the Grand Theatre in 1936 and converted in to a motion picture theater, it was briefly called the Actors Theatre. The building includes offices and meeting rooms. Photo dated: July 3, 1946.
Funny that there were three theaters on this unassuming street at one point, the Jewel, the Ivy and the Euclid. Now buried under a few tons of concrete.
Sometime in the 1950s, I think. It would have been the 5 going through East LA. I found the street on a 1944 map around that area, but today’s Thomas guide has no Stephenson Street.
Neither do I. Depressing, isn’t it?
Here is a 1980 photo from the LA Public Library:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070310.jpg
There was a lengthy article in the LA Weekly as well. A very ambitious program is planned.
Here is a re-post of the 1960 photo from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/2tkego
Here is a 1931 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014415.jpg
Here is a 2002 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ywy7hf
Please change the theater and city name to Potlatch. Thanks.
The website now tries to sell you insurance.
Here is a July 2003 article about the theater and Germantown Avenue:
http://tinyurl.com/38btsq
Here is a recent article from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
http://tinyurl.com/246grz
“They always get their man”. I think that’s a different kind of film.
Let’s bulldoze the first one. Editor please note. Can we also eliminate the duplicative Tilton Theater in Northfield, NJ?
End of the road in 1941:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070226.jpg
Here is a 1946 photo from the LAPL, shortly before demolition. I also have included the caption as there is a reference to another aka, Actor’s Theater. I thought Joe would like that:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070227.jpg
Grand Theatre, located in the Walker Auditorium Building at 750 South Grand Avenue, is to be demolished to make room for a parking lot. Built in 1907 by George W. Walker, the six-story theater was known as the Walker Auditorium and was the home of the theatrical hits of the day. It was renamed the Orange Grove Theater and became a music performance hall. Before being renamed one last time as the Grand Theatre in 1936 and converted in to a motion picture theater, it was briefly called the Actors Theatre. The building includes offices and meeting rooms. Photo dated: July 3, 1946.
The caption on this 1930 LAPL photo references a theater. Perhaps this is the Carmel:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071429.jpg
Funny that there were three theaters on this unassuming street at one point, the Jewel, the Ivy and the Euclid. Now buried under a few tons of concrete.
Here is an interior photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071465.jpg
Sometime in the 1950s, I think. It would have been the 5 going through East LA. I found the street on a 1944 map around that area, but today’s Thomas guide has no Stephenson Street.
Here are both pages of the 1914 city directory:
http://tinyurl.com/2sq8cq
http://tinyurl.com/2m5dq2
Here is the photo from georgia.org:
http://tinyurl.com/2bso53
Here is a postcard showing the Rivoli:
http://tinyurl.com/3yudo2
This article implies that the Rivoli is demolished. It may be referring to an earlier incarnation:
http://tinyurl.com/3cw4nv
The 1927-28 Cloquet city directory shows the Leb at the northeast corner of Cloquet at 10th avenue, so it was around as early as that date.
The category was motion picture theaters.
But we ended up with a nice picture of the theater, didn’t we? So all is not lost.
Here is the Picfair page:
/theaters/1168/
Yes sir.