No, the archives won’t allow me to copy the text. There’s also no way to post the actual page. I would have to get a scanner but I’ve never gotten around to that.
The Mexican bar could have been anything. The ballet school might have been a supermarket. Some car dealerships from the 40s were built like that as well, except the front of the building would be glass.
Sorry about that. This was a shoot-and-run type of photo as I wasn’t inclined to stop and walk around. If I’m back there again, I will take a better photo.
The Atlantic was showing adult films in January 1975. Open 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. The LA Times ad shows four theaters, all exhibiting the same film (Pistolero – rated X) but I don’t know if all four were part of the same chain:
Advertised at Pacific & Florence in the LA Times on 1/15/75. Interesting to see a whole ad page of adult theaters – that was already abolished when I started reading the Times in 1984.
Maybe I’m interpreting the Linda Lea bio wrong on the Bronzeville page, but it sounds like it was an African-American theater when it re-opened in 1945.
The LA Times consistently advertised the Linda Lea Theater at 1st and San Pedro in the 1940s. This seems a bit of a hike away from 2nd and Main, so I imagine it was another theater. Perhaps it was a chain.
Here is another photo from the site linked by LM in the preceding post. If you scroll all the way to the right in the older photo, you can see the Plaza: http://cougartown.com/streetscene2.html
Looks like it’s time for investigator man to get on the case. I will enter the Jet Strip under cover of darkness and will carefully analyze the structural details therein. Full (or almost full) report to follow.
I know (strictly from driving by, of course) that there is a good-sized strip club around that address called the Jet Strip. I will check on the address to see if it’s the same building.
No, the archives won’t allow me to copy the text. There’s also no way to post the actual page. I would have to get a scanner but I’ve never gotten around to that.
The Mexican bar could have been anything. The ballet school might have been a supermarket. Some car dealerships from the 40s were built like that as well, except the front of the building would be glass.
Sorry about that. This was a shoot-and-run type of photo as I wasn’t inclined to stop and walk around. If I’m back there again, I will take a better photo.
Too much thinking for me this early in the morning, Joe. Maybe later. Here is the LAPL photo from 1933:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics48/00058879.jpg
This sounds like the same group that ran the theaters in Philly when I lived there. Sam Eric and all those. Can anyone confirm?
The Atlantic was showing adult films in January 1975. Open 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. The LA Times ad shows four theaters, all exhibiting the same film (Pistolero – rated X) but I don’t know if all four were part of the same chain:
Atlantic
Buena Vista (Huntington at Buena Vista in Duarte)
Valley (6749 Lankershim in No. Hollywood)
Venus (2226 E. Colorado, Pasadena)
Advertised at Pacific & Florence in the LA Times on 1/15/75. Interesting to see a whole ad page of adult theaters – that was already abolished when I started reading the Times in 1984.
Is the theater clothing-optional?
Advertised as the New Starland in the LA Times on 1/22/36.
Advertised as the Egyptian in the LA Times on 1/22/36.
An usherette remembers:
http://tinyurl.com/yr2vja
It’s just a guess. John Gielgud was her nephew, I think.
Maybe I’m interpreting the Linda Lea bio wrong on the Bronzeville page, but it sounds like it was an African-American theater when it re-opened in 1945.
That solves that. Thanks.
Thanks to Ken Roe for presumably supplying the FDY information.
If you were wondering:
http://tinyurl.com/3b2z4k
Interesting site. There are 30 Buffalo theaters, all told.
The LA Times consistently advertised the Linda Lea Theater at 1st and San Pedro in the 1940s. This seems a bit of a hike away from 2nd and Main, so I imagine it was another theater. Perhaps it was a chain.
There is another aka for the Lux. On 12/2/46, the LA Times advertised a double feature at the Anita Theater, 825 W. Third.
Here is another photo from the site linked by LM in the preceding post. If you scroll all the way to the right in the older photo, you can see the Plaza:
http://cougartown.com/streetscene2.html
Advertised at 2915 N. Main on 12/2/46, per the LA Times.
Looks like my link is still holding up, three days later. That’s encouraging.
Here is a small ad in the LA Times dated 5/6/39. Thankfully times have changed for the better:
MILLION $ 2ND BIG WEEK
Premiere of Stage and Screen
“Blackberries of 1940"
40 Sizzling Brown Skin Beauties
plus 2 First Run Features
Looks like it’s time for investigator man to get on the case. I will enter the Jet Strip under cover of darkness and will carefully analyze the structural details therein. Full (or almost full) report to follow.
I know (strictly from driving by, of course) that there is a good-sized strip club around that address called the Jet Strip. I will check on the address to see if it’s the same building.
The Hitching Post was advertised at 1448 4th Street, Santa Monica in the LA Times on 2/11/46.