If you want to see Main Street in the 70s and 80s, your best bet is to rent Baretta and Hill Street Blues, respectively. In one HSB episode, two patrolmen started driving at 7th and Main and proceeded north. You could see every storefront on the east side of the street through the passenger window. I remember going frame by frame for three or four blocks.
I know that the Susan Hayward film “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” was filmed on 5th Street, but I haven’t seen that film available for rental. I saw it on AMC years ago.
I’ve been faithfully patronizing the bookstore in a small effort to promote business on Main Street. It reminds me of old town Pasadena in the very early stages, before the Gaps and Old Navys took over. Old Town was a rather decrepit area in the mid 80s, with mostly boarded up stores. I did read an article last month about chain retailers expressing interest in the revitalized downtown area, so when you see a Gap and a Starbucks at 5th and Main, you will know that the area has come full circle.
If you read the reminiscence by Fitzgerald Harder, he mentions the Isis along with some other local theaters. I believe that Augusta is in Cowley County. http://tinyurl.com/2znpqu
Redevelopment time. LA Times reports a megacondo complex to arise out of the ashes of the Philharmonic. As the downtown condo market is reaching saturation point, someone is missing the boat by proposing this 800 foot tall residential tower. My bet is that it won’t ever see the light of day.
417 would be between 4th and 5th on the east side of the street. After the San Fernando building, there are a few small businesses and then a parking lot where a hotel used to stand. Then you cross Winston and start with some older buildings. I think 417 would be after Winston, so I can look the next time I’m downtown.
There are three nice photos on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/3axcu5
There are more photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/33mja3
If anyone wants to see the Burger King in the lobby, here it is. The date is 1989:
http://tinyurl.com/2ls5gk
If anyone wants to see the Burger King in the lobby, here it is. The date is 1989:
http://tinyurl.com/2ls5gk
This 1954 photo shows the Roxy Loan Office at 438 S. Main, so presumably the theater arrived later:
http://tinyurl.com/2rj5jk
The Hippodrome is at the far end of this 1957 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2vf82e
Tearing up the promenade in 1965:
http://tinyurl.com/39lb5b
1992 from the Santa Monica PL:
http://tinyurl.com/2tjvml
I was in Calexico a few years ago. Nothing to write home about.
If you want to see Main Street in the 70s and 80s, your best bet is to rent Baretta and Hill Street Blues, respectively. In one HSB episode, two patrolmen started driving at 7th and Main and proceeded north. You could see every storefront on the east side of the street through the passenger window. I remember going frame by frame for three or four blocks.
A skating rink in LA? No wonder it went out of business.
I know that the Susan Hayward film “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” was filmed on 5th Street, but I haven’t seen that film available for rental. I saw it on AMC years ago.
I just ordered the film from Amazon. Thanks for the tip.
Not to be confused witn the theater of the same name in Fortaleza.
I took some pictures of this theater – will post as soon as I get them on a disk. Very picturesque area in downtown Fortaleza.
There is a short biography of Bill Clune on this page:
http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/index.html
Most likely the Main Street gym. Is this movie available on DVD?
I’ve been faithfully patronizing the bookstore in a small effort to promote business on Main Street. It reminds me of old town Pasadena in the very early stages, before the Gaps and Old Navys took over. Old Town was a rather decrepit area in the mid 80s, with mostly boarded up stores. I did read an article last month about chain retailers expressing interest in the revitalized downtown area, so when you see a Gap and a Starbucks at 5th and Main, you will know that the area has come full circle.
A time machine would be handy.
If you read the reminiscence by Fitzgerald Harder, he mentions the Isis along with some other local theaters. I believe that Augusta is in Cowley County.
http://tinyurl.com/2znpqu
Caro, I didn’t see your 4/23 post. That’s the building I was referring to above.
Redevelopment time. LA Times reports a megacondo complex to arise out of the ashes of the Philharmonic. As the downtown condo market is reaching saturation point, someone is missing the boat by proposing this 800 foot tall residential tower. My bet is that it won’t ever see the light of day.
Hippodrome was demolished in 1984. The Westminster was probably demolished in the sixties. It was looking pretty shabby by 1955 or so.
417 would be between 4th and 5th on the east side of the street. After the San Fernando building, there are a few small businesses and then a parking lot where a hotel used to stand. Then you cross Winston and start with some older buildings. I think 417 would be after Winston, so I can look the next time I’m downtown.
458 is the Banner theater. Currently a parking lot. No more Turkish baths at 4th and LA.