This ad for Citizen Kane, playing at the El Capitan, was dated June 1, 1941. If you’re familiar with the film, you will recall that RKO was under a lot of pressure from the other studios to destroy the negative and in fact was offered a sizable amount of money to do so: http://tinyurl.com/36blnm
Going back to the 1954 photo of 8/6/07, I believe it says Linda vertically and then Lea across the bottom of the sign. This would make sense as the theater was already showing Japanese films by that time.
I drove by the intersection today. The theater was on the southwest corner of 54th and Western. There’s a paved lot now, but it looks like there was something in that space after the theater. Perhaps a gas station.
This ad for Citizen Kane, playing at the El Capitan, was dated June 1, 1941. If you’re familiar with the film, you will recall that RKO was under a lot of pressure from the other studios to destroy the negative and in fact was offered a sizable amount of money to do so:
http://tinyurl.com/36blnm
Here is a 1928 photo from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/327b8n
Isn’t a non-denominational Protestant church a bit of a contradiction?
I believe the above picture was taken during the “zoot suit” riots in 1943.
This is a 1900 drawing. The Lyceum is in the middle of the 200 block of Spring Street:
http://tinyurl.com/25cyu4
Here is a June 1943 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/22a9vw
The Dodgers are welcomed to Los Angeles, 4/18/58. It looks like the car in the middle is an Edsel:
http://tinyurl.com/3xons8
Going back to the 1954 photo of 8/6/07, I believe it says Linda vertically and then Lea across the bottom of the sign. This would make sense as the theater was already showing Japanese films by that time.
Here is a September 1942 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2ryaew
Here is a September 1942 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2kfay6
This May 1942 ad was in the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/26bcym
What kind of films was the Liberty showing in April 1942? Not Disney, apparently. The ad is from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/3xubse
The Midway was part of the independent theater lineup in this March 1942 LA Times ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2eo743
Here is a February 1942 ad from the LA Times. The Russians were still the good guys then:
http://tinyurl.com/2dsvby
Here is an LA Times ad from February 1942:
http://tinyurl.com/28ddhy
You may have heard of this film that was advertised in the January 1942 LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2o3pma
Here is the January 1938 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2lkyfr
Here is a December 1944 ad from the Kingsport Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2w25hs
Here is a December 1944 ad from the Kingsport Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2w25hs
Here is a December 1944 ad from the Kingsport Times:
http://tinyurl.com/34n5tm
Here are three recent photos:
http://tinyurl.com/3cgt2o
http://tinyurl.com/33tdx6
http://tinyurl.com/3dkbmh
I drove by the intersection today. The theater was on the southwest corner of 54th and Western. There’s a paved lot now, but it looks like there was something in that space after the theater. Perhaps a gas station.
Here are some recent photos:
http://tinyurl.com/yrsw5p
http://tinyurl.com/2b442v
http://tinyurl.com/yvvug9
http://tinyurl.com/2djo4o
http://tinyurl.com/2g88pr
Here are the photos. I added the UCLA picture to show the original pattern on the floor, then and now. I’m aware that I posted the same photo back on 10/24/05:
http://tinyurl.com/2j9q6o
http://tinyurl.com/36ktee
http://tinyurl.com/2sj5ez
http://tinyurl.com/2pvwuu
http://tinyurl.com/2skhjx
http://tinyurl.com/36m8zt
http://tinyurl.com/32u8bx
http://tinyurl.com/2t9do9
http://tinyurl.com/3yy872
Closed but not demolished. They built a strip of stores across the front. The theater itself is not being used for anything. Photos to follow.