I’ve wandered around the huge parking lot at 5th and Hill/Olive looking for traces of the College and the Philharmonic building. If I walk around in circles for too long, people start giving me their spare change.
A Hawthorne teen-age youth staggered fifteen feet out of a drive-in theater lounge late last night and collapsed face down, with a fatal stab wound in his chest. The stabbing occurred just after four men knocked down another unidentified youth outside the lounge. The men then went inside and fought with the teenager who was killed, witnesses told police.
In the ensuing uproar at the Roadium Theater, 2500 Redondo Beach Boulevard, police hurriedly searched every car and brought in five adults for questioning. Dead on arrival at Harbor General Hospital was John Nelson Edwards, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Edwards, 243 E. 137th Street, Hawthorne.
KDG, poster of 4/17/07, should note this LA Times brief dated 2/17/48:
S.C. Student Caught Firing Staples at Burlesque Girls
The ladies of the chorus at the Burbank Theater at yesterday’s matinee were jumping – but not in time with the music. The dance director objected, “That’s not the way the dance goes”. The chorus chorused, “We know that, but something is hitting us. Something that hurts”.
The management called police who soon spotted William C. Kiele, 23, University of Southern California student. From his eighth row seat, police said Kiele was peppering the dancing ladies with half-inch steel staples. He had a rubber slingshot. Police booked Kiele at County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Too bad we can’t get inside – I wonder what’s left.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/25v3yw
I’ve wandered around the huge parking lot at 5th and Hill/Olive looking for traces of the College and the Philharmonic building. If I walk around in circles for too long, people start giving me their spare change.
I don’t think this theater is open to show films anymore.
From the LA Times, dated 8/15/57:
Torrance Brawl Ends in Fatal Stabbing; Five Held
A Hawthorne teen-age youth staggered fifteen feet out of a drive-in theater lounge late last night and collapsed face down, with a fatal stab wound in his chest. The stabbing occurred just after four men knocked down another unidentified youth outside the lounge. The men then went inside and fought with the teenager who was killed, witnesses told police.
In the ensuing uproar at the Roadium Theater, 2500 Redondo Beach Boulevard, police hurriedly searched every car and brought in five adults for questioning. Dead on arrival at Harbor General Hospital was John Nelson Edwards, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Edwards, 243 E. 137th Street, Hawthorne.
KDG, poster of 4/17/07, should note this LA Times brief dated 2/17/48:
S.C. Student Caught Firing Staples at Burlesque Girls
The ladies of the chorus at the Burbank Theater at yesterday’s matinee were jumping – but not in time with the music. The dance director objected, “That’s not the way the dance goes”. The chorus chorused, “We know that, but something is hitting us. Something that hurts”.
The management called police who soon spotted William C. Kiele, 23, University of Southern California student. From his eighth row seat, police said Kiele was peppering the dancing ladies with half-inch steel staples. He had a rubber slingshot. Police booked Kiele at County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Here is an ad from the LA Times dated 12/20/51. The graphics are interesting – too bad there’s no way to copy them here.
Lautrec’s Paris of the Gay 90s – The beauty, the glory, the excitement of Goya, Gauguin, Bosch, Carpaccio and Grant Wood – as never before seen!
“Pictura” – Adventure in Art
featuring Vincent Price
Narration by Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Martin Gabel, Lilli Palmer, Harry Marble
Goya music by Andres Segovia
World Premiere sponsored by L.A. County Museum
Esquire Theater
419 N. Fairfax Phone YO 8114
Architect was L.M. Bostock.
I will try for some photos the next time I’m in the area.
This was actually a twin, at least towards the end of its life.
Status should be closed.
If it’s vacant, status should be closed.
11021 is a parking lot.11001 looks like a theater, but no record of one at that address, as far as I know.
Not demolished. It is a church now. Status should be closed.
Here are the photos:
http://tinyurl.com/yu2jcz
http://tinyurl.com/yoauls
http://tinyurl.com/yvdbn3
http://tinyurl.com/yq39du
http://tinyurl.com/2hs9yp
http://tinyurl.com/22r838
http://tinyurl.com/24jjsa
http://tinyurl.com/24uhuv
http://tinyurl.com/ywkflp
http://tinyurl.com/28xmxz
Here are some photos from June 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/yrase2
http://tinyurl.com/2z6m5t
http://tinyurl.com/23k7lt
http://tinyurl.com/yudwgm
Here are the photos:
http://tinyurl.com/2lg5t9
http://tinyurl.com/2pxtdd
http://tinyurl.com/38r93w
http://tinyurl.com/3cmxkp
http://tinyurl.com/2ssku6
http://tinyurl.com/2u6d7o
http://tinyurl.com/2gr2md
http://tinyurl.com/28l6yc
Here are two photos from June 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2p8645
http://tinyurl.com/2jghdf
Here are some photos from June 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3a8mqd
http://tinyurl.com/2j5jar
http://tinyurl.com/3auzvm
http://tinyurl.com/39576k
The Deluxe is in need of some serious TLC:
http://tinyurl.com/2llle3
http://tinyurl.com/2mwdol
http://tinyurl.com/2vr6hv
Here are photos of the theater and the church from June 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2yof26
http://tinyurl.com/2e3vck
http://tinyurl.com/265bfb
http://tinyurl.com/yp7q3k
http://tinyurl.com/2gwpof
http://tinyurl.com/yuhscq
http://tinyurl.com/2l2oyw
http://tinyurl.com/34t3pz
Here are some photos I took last week:
http://tinyurl.com/2c2fns
http://tinyurl.com/2drrfu
Here are some photos I took last week. Is there any chance that the address was 6003 and not 6013? Look at the 6003 building:
http://tinyurl.com/yw5lnx
http://tinyurl.com/yqsjdr
Here are some photos from June 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2y3fwt
http://tinyurl.com/yr6hgf
http://tinyurl.com/2h65c8
Here is a June 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/35q6oz