Comments from kencmcintyre

There is another photo on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/2sv42u

There was an article about the Leimert in the LA Times today, or maybe it was yesterday. An $11 million renovation is two years from completion. The article should be on the paper’s website if you want the whole story.

I was in Boulder City a few years ago. I seem to recall that it’s the only city in Nevada that doesn’t have legalized gambling. If I’m wrong, let me know.

Thanks for the information. I do have to deny authoring the grammatical inconsistency at the top of the page, however.

The 1970 IMPA shows the operator of the Art as Lightstone Theater Enterprises, Inc, president Morty Lightstone. This outfit ran numerous houses in New York at that time as well as several in New Jersey, one in Connecticut and one in Washington, D.C.

Not directly connected with this theater, but interesting in its own right, MGM had a subsidiary in El Nasr, Baghdad in 1970, according to the IMPA of that year. The subsidiary was called MGM Middle East, Inc.

It pays to check the LAPL site once in a while as they have an ongoing project re adding new photos to the site. The funny thing was when I was in the stacks downtown last month almost all the photos in the stacks concerning Los Angeles history had already been posted on the website. They are thorough.

Here is a 1980 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070197.jpg

Here is a 1968 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070085.jpg

This is a 1953 photo from the LA Library collection:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070072.jpg

Here is a December 1972 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2xhoh5

Here is an April 1972 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2hqu5h