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.
The movie was filmed on Main Street, at the ferry dock in San Pedro and at a sugar factory in Orange County. I visited the Merchant Marine museum at the dock a few years ago, so it was interesting to see the space when it was a functioning ferry port.
I watched the film “Street with no Name” last night. Quite a bit of the movie was shot in the Main Street gym, so you get a good look at the interior of the Hippodrome.
This 1918 photo has a caption which states that the Automatic Theater follows the Emporium, which is the first business on the left. The photo is looking south from Third, which would put the Automatic a bit before the Hippodrome: http://tinyurl.com/ytpz9a
Here is an interesting 1923 photo from the LAPL, not so much for the theater but for the view of Hollywood Blvd in its early days. No highrises. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007790.jpg
I thought the Town was in this circa 1930 photo, but the hotel shown is on the NE corner of Hill and 4th (not 5th), so it must be something else. Kind of looks like a theater, though: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068248.jpg
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.
I saw Yor at the Budco Goldman in Philadelphia in the summer of 1983. Funny how bad movies stick in your memory.
It was fun to see the Regent’s neon sign blinking away in the Richard Widmark movie discussed above.
The movie was filmed on Main Street, at the ferry dock in San Pedro and at a sugar factory in Orange County. I visited the Merchant Marine museum at the dock a few years ago, so it was interesting to see the space when it was a functioning ferry port.
The interior of the Hippodrome became the gym, I believe. It was upstairs from the parking garage, which was also converted from the Hippodrome.
I watched the film “Street with no Name” last night. Quite a bit of the movie was shot in the Main Street gym, so you get a good look at the interior of the Hippodrome.
This 1918 photo has a caption which states that the Automatic Theater follows the Emporium, which is the first business on the left. The photo is looking south from Third, which would put the Automatic a bit before the Hippodrome:
http://tinyurl.com/ytpz9a
Here is an 1889 photo from the USC collection:
http://tinyurl.com/2ac5zd
Here is the Grotto in 1918:
http://tinyurl.com/mla2o
Here is the same view in 1904 – no People’s marquee that I can see:
http://tinyurl.com/yu8vtp
Here is the People’s Theater, circa 1907. I don’t know if this has been posted on one of the other pages already:
http://tinyurl.com/yv9n7l
Here’s another photo of Main and 4th from 1943:
http://tinyurl.com/yws7ae
Here is an interesting 1923 photo from the LAPL, not so much for the theater but for the view of Hollywood Blvd in its early days. No highrises.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007790.jpg
I thought the Town was in this circa 1930 photo, but the hotel shown is on the NE corner of Hill and 4th (not 5th), so it must be something else. Kind of looks like a theater, though:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068248.jpg