Joe, I’m not making light of your typo, as I make enough of them myself, but “ruinewal” does sound like a combination of ruin and renewal, which is quite often the case.
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.
This photo had me stumped for a while. If you compare it to the one directly above, it appears that the smaller buildings were the site of the Subway Terminal building, which was completed by 1928 if the date on the preceding picture is correct. The College unfortunately would be a little further south and is out of the picture: http://tinyurl.com/2enk47
I saw “Kindergarten Cop” here in the early 90s. Interesting to explore the theater, which at that time was shabby but still showed the details from the glory days.
I drove by the Ambassador the other day. There’s still part of the old building standing. I thought they had razed it all by now. Tbey did remove Sammy Davis Jr’s Now Grove signage off the post out front, so now it says Ambassador as it used to.
It looks like the theater in the photo starts with an I. Then again, it could be an old ad for a theater in a different location.
The Tropic was taken over by a church from 1991 to 1993, according to the church website:
http://tinyurl.com/2dhlxh
I should have said “There was another old theater on the right side of the street, that said ‘theatre’ on the side of the building”. My mistake.
Here is an undated photo of the Fox:
http://tinyurl.com/2p5oex
There was another old theater on Main Street in the 1950s. No clue as to the identity, though. It may have been a playhouse:
http://tinyurl.com/2vhf4y
So it would be part of the “No Remaining Seats” program.
It would be good on some of those aerial photos.
Then why the church sign?
How many drive-ins did Pacific sell in the mid 1990s? I remember the one in Culver City on Sepulveda disappearing around the same time.
Was the Mayan ever used for a church? There’s a sign on the theater in this 1950 photo that says “Immanuel”:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics07/00013103.jpg
Protest, 1950. It looks like the zoom function has returned:
http://tinyurl.com/2dzy5v
Joe, I’m not making light of your typo, as I make enough of them myself, but “ruinewal” does sound like a combination of ruin and renewal, which is quite often the case.
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.
Read Joe’s comment of 7/12/07.
Here is a 1920 photo from the USC archive. I assume the signs are advertising the impending construction of the RKO:
http://tinyurl.com/2s6qzm
This photo had me stumped for a while. If you compare it to the one directly above, it appears that the smaller buildings were the site of the Subway Terminal building, which was completed by 1928 if the date on the preceding picture is correct. The College unfortunately would be a little further south and is out of the picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2enk47
You can see both the College and what may be a Peoples theater in this USC photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yrhj8u
I saw “Kindergarten Cop” here in the early 90s. Interesting to explore the theater, which at that time was shabby but still showed the details from the glory days.
The space looks pretty large today, as I was peeking the other day. I still can’t get into the building, however.
Here is a photo from the CA state library. The date is in question:
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Type “CA state library reagh” in Google, you will get the site.
I see that Joe posted that photo on 12/13/05. Apologies. I thought I had seen it somewhere before.
Here is a photo from the CA state library:
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I drove by the Ambassador the other day. There’s still part of the old building standing. I thought they had razed it all by now. Tbey did remove Sammy Davis Jr’s Now Grove signage off the post out front, so now it says Ambassador as it used to.
Here are two interior photos from the CA state library:
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