Comments from kencmcintyre

Did Sid Grauman build the Million Dollar, the Chinese, the Egyptian and the Metropolitan all at the same time? Wasn’t this shortly before the Depression? I wonder how he managed the financing.

Here are three interesting photos from the LA Library. One is a good view of the interior. The last picture shows the theater at the end of its life, being encroached upon by the twentieth century.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036855.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036853.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036854.jpg

Here is an expanded version of the photo above, from the LA Library:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics35/00037266.jpg

From the LA Library. The theater is at the far end of the street:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics41/00040418.jpg

I haven’t had cable for a while. The last movie channel that I used on a regular basis was the Z Channel. I must have taped a thousand movies off of that channel.

Another premier night:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics50/00044826.jpg

Here are some additional photos from the LA Library:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036923.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036922.jpg

Here is another theater in Whittier which I don’t think is listed. The theater was originally called the Wardman, then later on became a Pussycat Theater. Its current status is unknown. The theater was in Whittier, somewhere.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036939.jpg

Another photo from the LA Library:

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028730.jpg

What is the inevitable fate of an forgotten theater?

1) Third rate horror movies

2) Adult films

3) Church

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028715.jpg

Also from the LA Library:

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028660.jpg

Here is a rather melodramatic picture from the LA Library:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics27/00033423.jpg

From the LA Library:

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics10/00024868.jpg