If it is of any use to anyone, my mom was an usherette at the Wardman in the ‘40’s and she used to park me in the projection booth with Mr. Wardman until her shift was finished, then we’d watch the next show. The lounge area upstairs was really beautiful, at that time. I grew up in the Roxy, around the corner from the Wardman, with its Saturday matinees, complete with yo-yo contests, etc., the Wardman, and the beautiful Spanish Revival Whittier Theatre, on Whittier Boulevard. After the War, my mom and I would chase the searchlights all over the L.A. basin on the weekends, attending shows at every movie house operating from Santa Monica to Long Beach to La Habra, Fullerton and Santa Ana. I’m currently restoring and operating the 1928 Patricia Theatre in Powell River, B.C., and draw heavily on my recollections of what REAL movie palaces looked like in their prime, in L.A.!
Annie F.
If it is of any use to anyone, my mom was an usherette at the Wardman in the ‘40’s and she used to park me in the projection booth with Mr. Wardman until her shift was finished, then we’d watch the next show. The lounge area upstairs was really beautiful, at that time. I grew up in the Roxy, around the corner from the Wardman, with its Saturday matinees, complete with yo-yo contests, etc., the Wardman, and the beautiful Spanish Revival Whittier Theatre, on Whittier Boulevard. After the War, my mom and I would chase the searchlights all over the L.A. basin on the weekends, attending shows at every movie house operating from Santa Monica to Long Beach to La Habra, Fullerton and Santa Ana. I’m currently restoring and operating the 1928 Patricia Theatre in Powell River, B.C., and draw heavily on my recollections of what REAL movie palaces looked like in their prime, in L.A.!
Annie F.