If you look again at the photo from the LAPL I posted on 2/3/07, the Banner is to the left of the small white hotel sign, or immediately north of the sign. I said south originally but now I have the UCLA photo posted on 5/18/07.
The Banner had migrated back to 458 S. Main by September 1974. Featured were “Erotic Adult Films – Discount After Midnight”. I would hope they give me a discount if I’m on sleazy Main Street at that time of the night.
Features at the Astro on 9/15/74 – “Campeones Justicieros” and “Enfriar Madido”. The first means Champions of Justice. The second is unknown. “Enfriar” means to cool, but I don’t know what “madido” means. It might be a name.
One man nearly sacrificed himself yesterday to stop a fire which later got beyond his control and gutted the New York Theater, a little moving picture show place at 255 S. Main Street.
Ralph Miller, 22 years old, was turning the reel when the celluloid caught fire. Immediately it puffed into a vicious flame. Realizing the panic that would come in the crowded theater below if the alarm spread, Miller staid (sic) in his sheet-iron coop, fighting heroically to stop the flames before they could burn him out of his nest.
Before Miller could save himself he was terribly burned about the head and hands. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital and later to his home. Miller, however, had not succeeded in preventing a panic. He was still fighting the fire when the smoke crawled through the lantern window and soared over the audience. A rush followed, and with the mass of patrons that came trooping out was an old rat, weak from age and also panic-stricken. It got out under the feet of the crowd without an injury and and walked to the end of the sidewalk, where he stood sniffing for safety directly under the feet of the horses, who were more afraid of the rat than he was of them.
The Woodley theater opened on 9/25/13. It was on Broadway between 8th and 9th. It’s not the Majestic or the Garrick. What other theaters do we have on that block?
People’s Theater address was 523 S. Main, per an ad in the LA Times dated 11/29/08. Another ad on the same page touts Long Beach as “The Atlantic City of the Pacific”, which I liked. Nobody touts my hometown any more except compulsive gamblers.
Here is an article from the LA Times dated 12/25/15:
BY WAY OF CLIMAX
A film depicting a fat woman slugging a tall, thin man exploded in the Western motion picture theater, No. 255 South Main Street, yesterday, causing a temporary panic among several hundred patrons who were deep in giggles when the alarm occurred. The flames shot from the machine cage.
The crowd made a rapid exit, and the loss was confined to $300 by the quick work of the house attaches. W.B. Allan, in charge of the projecting machine, averted serious damage by closing the door to the cage as he escaped.
It was called Movies of Tarzana in September 1974. Six screens at that time.
No more Doris Day films in September 1974. Features were “Behind the Green Door” and “Resurrection of Eve”.
Featured on 9/15/74 – “Chinatown” and “The Stone Killers”.
It still had five screens in September 1974.
I’m still wrong. South would be correct if I had any sense of direction. I was right the first time.
If you look again at the photo from the LAPL I posted on 2/3/07, the Banner is to the left of the small white hotel sign, or immediately north of the sign. I said south originally but now I have the UCLA photo posted on 5/18/07.
September 1974 advertised all male films 10 am to 5 am. Gives them a couple of hours to sweep and mop, maybe make some fresh popcorn.
Featured on 9/15/74 – “Animal Crackers” plus 2nd Marx Bros movie.
Feature on 9/15/74: “Where Couples Gather”. Advertised as 24 hour theater.
The Clinton was showing “The Flasher” and “Personnels” in 1974. Possibly adult films, but I can’t tell for sure from the titles.
“The Movie” was at 345 Ocean.
The Banner had migrated back to 458 S. Main by September 1974. Featured were “Erotic Adult Films – Discount After Midnight”. I would hope they give me a discount if I’m on sleazy Main Street at that time of the night.
Features at the Astro on 9/15/74 – “Campeones Justicieros” and “Enfriar Madido”. The first means Champions of Justice. The second is unknown. “Enfriar” means to cool, but I don’t know what “madido” means. It might be a name.
Features on 9/15/74 were “SPYS” (bad MASH ripoff) and “Steelyard Blues”. Phone number was 372-8500.
Advertised as the New Park on 9/15/74. Features were “White Dawn” and “Black Samson”.
Advertised at 6528 Pacific in September 1974, per the LA Times. Features that day were “Macon County Line” and “Screaming Tiger”.
9/15/74 – Westland Twin 1: Parallax View, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Twin 2: Blazing Saddles, 3 Musketeers
Advertised as Toho La Brea on 9/15/74 – feature was “Sword of Vengeance, Part 5”.
Open on 9/15/74 – features were “Kung-Fu Savage” and “Golden Swallow”.
This is from the LA Times, dated 11/20/13:
TRIES TO STOP THEATER PANIC
One man nearly sacrificed himself yesterday to stop a fire which later got beyond his control and gutted the New York Theater, a little moving picture show place at 255 S. Main Street.
Ralph Miller, 22 years old, was turning the reel when the celluloid caught fire. Immediately it puffed into a vicious flame. Realizing the panic that would come in the crowded theater below if the alarm spread, Miller staid (sic) in his sheet-iron coop, fighting heroically to stop the flames before they could burn him out of his nest.
Before Miller could save himself he was terribly burned about the head and hands. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital and later to his home. Miller, however, had not succeeded in preventing a panic. He was still fighting the fire when the smoke crawled through the lantern window and soared over the audience. A rush followed, and with the mass of patrons that came trooping out was an old rat, weak from age and also panic-stricken. It got out under the feet of the crowd without an injury and and walked to the end of the sidewalk, where he stood sniffing for safety directly under the feet of the horses, who were more afraid of the rat than he was of them.
The Woodley was at 840 S. Broadway.
The Woodley theater opened on 9/25/13. It was on Broadway between 8th and 9th. It’s not the Majestic or the Garrick. What other theaters do we have on that block?
People’s Theater address was 523 S. Main, per an ad in the LA Times dated 11/29/08. Another ad on the same page touts Long Beach as “The Atlantic City of the Pacific”, which I liked. Nobody touts my hometown any more except compulsive gamblers.
The Civic is an aka for the Arrow/Linda Lea.
Here is an article from the LA Times dated 12/25/15:
BY WAY OF CLIMAX
A film depicting a fat woman slugging a tall, thin man exploded in the Western motion picture theater, No. 255 South Main Street, yesterday, causing a temporary panic among several hundred patrons who were deep in giggles when the alarm occurred. The flames shot from the machine cage.
The crowd made a rapid exit, and the loss was confined to $300 by the quick work of the house attaches. W.B. Allan, in charge of the projecting machine, averted serious damage by closing the door to the cage as he escaped.
Thanks to both.