Tower Theatre
802 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
802 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90014
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I watched them clean the north side on 8th….At one point they had half clean and half dirty and the difference was striking.
Has anybody noticed the beautiful job the owners have done on the theatre’s facade???? The entire building has had a major power wash and looks stunning. While driving home from the Edison a few nights back I had to stop the car and get out to see the lights on the blade sigh and marque glowing. The theatre looks fantastic and I’m looking forward to getting inside soon. I spoke to Frank Schultz the manager of the Delijani Family Theater empire a few days back, and he said that the Palace Theatre on Broadway is next in line for a facade cleaning. YAY!!!
No, the SRO places are over on Main Street.
Or standing room only….
So it would be part of the “No Remaining Seats” program.
I went in here last winter one night when all the side doors were open and they were filming something in there. I don’t think there are any seats and there is some kind of new stage that is like a runway coming out. The stage might have been for whatever they were filming but I’m pretty sure that there are no seats.
I haven’t been inside this one. I don’t think it’s ever been part of the last remainingf seats program. I’ve been to the Orpheum and the Los Angeles, and I think one of the shows was at the Million Dollar a few years ago.
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Here is a new photo of the tower theatre, and a few more on broadway in downtown LA taken this year.
Here are two interior photos from the CA state library:
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I have a feeling that soon we will be seeing Guess ads or Calvin Klein ads in the billboard sized spaces where it says newsreel.
I think the name was changed to Newsreel after WW2. Here is a 1940 photo that shows Tower on the marquee:
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The theater already looks much better from being cleaned. I wonder what they will do with the billboards that say ‘newsreel’. I’ve kind of grown attached to them. A little bird told me that the clock is being repaired also.
Here is a 1952 photo from the LAPL:
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The church only leases the State Theatre.
The State is owned by a church, I thought, unless the church leases it from the owners.
The exterior of the theater is currently being cleaned – work began last night. The huge graffitti on the stained glass window has also been removed. This is being paid for by the new owners, who also own the nearby State, Los Angeles and Palace Theatres.
Here are some July 2007 photos:
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The end of Transformers takes place on Broadway, mostly in front of the Orpheum. But I believe one of the bad robots lands on the Tower and has a brief fight with one of the good robots. They worked the Eastern Columbia building in as well.
You can see the Tower Theatre along with the Rialto Theatre in the movie “Let’s Do It Again”.
Did you get to see Mira Sorvino or Chow Yun Fat during the making of that movie?
I spent the night at this theater as an extra during the filming of “The Replacement Killers” back in 1997. I took a stroll and got to check out all the old theaters downtown while nobody was on the streets. A great night.
Rumours are going around of the Tower getting a rehab and showing movies again in the distant future. Apparently this news is coming from a sales agent selling condos at the Chapman Building, which is across the street. The website for the theater itself has not changed at all.
Here’s the link, take this rumor for what it’s worth:
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Here is a ‘then & now’ comparison I put together that shows the Tower from 1928 and the same shot now:
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The Tower Theatre also stood in for the Pantages Theater in “Ed Wood” with Johnny Depp, filmed 1994 (interiors only). I happened to be walking by the area during the shoot, and I spoke briefly to some of the extras, all dressed in 1950’s period clothing as they milled about the street. It was like going back in time 40 years for a second.