Here is a 1966 photo. It’s interesting because Loew’s has been taken off the marquee, and it just says “The State”. Perhaps a change of ownership: http://tinyurl.com/ytgne9
Here is a 1906 picture from USC. The caption states that Tally’s Theater is pictured on 6th and Broadway. Not sure which building is the theater, though: http://tinyurl.com/3ysc79
I recall seeing a movie in 1980 when I was a freshman in college. Some atrocity with Alan Alda and Rita Moreno. It was a rainy weekday, and I was the only one in the theater, besides the projectionist I suppose. Twenty seven years later and I still remember sitting in the middle row waiting for the movie to end.
This would be the Sixth Street side of the building:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068268.jpg
Here is an undated photo from the LAPL. I believe this is the RKO:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068244.jpg
Here is a 1937 premiere from the UCLA collection:
http://tinyurl.com/2h4k4d
Joe is great to have around as he seems to have an encyclopaedic memory of Los Angeles from sixty years ago to the present. Don’t go changin, Joe.
The advertisement on the top of the building is for a Las Vegas casino in this 1981 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/22tq8p
Here is another UCLA photo, dated 1920:
http://tinyurl.com/25mtbn
Here is a 1966 photo. It’s interesting because Loew’s has been taken off the marquee, and it just says “The State”. Perhaps a change of ownership:
http://tinyurl.com/ytgne9
Here is a 1987 photo from the UCLA collection:
http://tinyurl.com/2z3dh7
Here is a 1965 photo from the same collection:
http://tinyurl.com/24bana
Here is a 1977 photo from the UCLA collection:
http://tinyurl.com/27mljl
Here is a 1984 photo from the UCLA collection
http://tinyurl.com/2ejk32
Here is a 1951 photo from UCLA:
http://tinyurl.com/23e7oa
Here is a 1963 photo from UCLA:
http://tinyurl.com/ynoftw
It took a while, but now we have a picture of the Banner, circa 1965:
http://tinyurl.com/2gvqa7
Here is a 1920 photo from UCLA:
http://tinyurl.com/272r4z
Sloshing down Broadway, 1965:
http://tinyurl.com/2xe2es
Here is a circa WW2 photo from UCLA:
http://tinyurl.com/2nxllp
Here is a circa 1940s photo from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/2xxzog
Here is a 1906 picture from USC. The caption states that Tally’s Theater is pictured on 6th and Broadway. Not sure which building is the theater, though:
http://tinyurl.com/3ysc79
1938, from the USC collection:
http://tinyurl.com/2ksa3t
Working on the marquee in 1939:
http://tinyurl.com/34669w
I was following the bad movie thread and not the Mann National thread. Sorry about the confusion.
I saw it at the Sam Eric on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. It was the Four Seasons. Middle age couples having some kind of mid life crisis.
Best bet is still to rent Hill Street Blues from Netflix or Blockbuster. All filmed on Main and Los Angeles streets in the early 80s.
I recall seeing a movie in 1980 when I was a freshman in college. Some atrocity with Alan Alda and Rita Moreno. It was a rainy weekday, and I was the only one in the theater, besides the projectionist I suppose. Twenty seven years later and I still remember sitting in the middle row waiting for the movie to end.