I spent some time with a friend in Miami Beach when I took the photos in April. He is a real estate developer, pretty well known in that area. He objected when I told him about taking pictures of the strip club as he has had numerous run ins with the owner, whose name I can’t recall. He didn’t see any architectural significance regarding this building. To each his own, I guess.
Some early reviews by Landmark patrons were less than glowing. Problems with sound and with the staff. This is third hand as I haven’t been to this theater yet.
You can see the side of the building to the left of this 1932 photo. Unfortunately the photographer focused on the water and not on the front of the theater: http://tinyurl.com/2awu4c
Hard to figure how a municipality could be called “Body of Christ”. Doesn’t that seem like a church/state separation issue?
I spent some time with a friend in Miami Beach when I took the photos in April. He is a real estate developer, pretty well known in that area. He objected when I told him about taking pictures of the strip club as he has had numerous run ins with the owner, whose name I can’t recall. He didn’t see any architectural significance regarding this building. To each his own, I guess.
Ken Green, here is your furniture store. Photo is dated 1954:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics31/00050120.jpg
Close. The film would have been “A Summer Place”. The aforementioned theme song was a huge hit in 1959.
Some early reviews by Landmark patrons were less than glowing. Problems with sound and with the staff. This is third hand as I haven’t been to this theater yet.
Here is a photo from the Library of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/2rcttn
Here is a photo from the Library of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/2vskfq
Here is a photo from the Library of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/2wl4wv
Here is a photo from the LOC. I’ve had a problem before with these links failing. Hopefully that has been fixed:
http://tinyurl.com/2tf9le
This is from the LOC. They’re a little confused about which theater this is, but it is the guvment, after all:
http://tinyurl.com/2r6h8u
This is essentially the same view in 1930, but the plunging body makes it hard to see the Warners' marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/glrha
You win a free ticket to Die Hard 4 at the Soboba Theater.
Oh Bill Robinson, where have you gone…lost in San Jacinto.
If you look closely, you can see the Warren’s marquee in this 1960 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ywu9yh
Of course, if the photographer was facing west instead of east, this wouldn’t be the theater at all.
You can see the side of the building to the left of this 1932 photo. Unfortunately the photographer focused on the water and not on the front of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/2awu4c
You can see that the theater is already gone in this 1987 photo:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034842.jpg
No parking lot that I saw. Just dirt.
Where’s the rest of the story? It stopped on page 7, and I was just getting interested.
Nothing at 5203 or 5263 S. Broadway.
Where ever it was, it’s not there now. There’s a store on the corner of 44th & Broadway and after that an empty lot.
There is a small store at 4817 with a house behind it. 4811 is an apartment building. I would say the theater is long gone.
No trace of the theater at this location today.
6101 is a church on the corner of 61st and Main. 6107 is an empty lot, then there’s another building at 6111.
The Merryland Theater was advertised in the LA Times on 9/2/23 at 1015 E. 7th Street. This is probably an aka for the Dorkel.