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losangeleno commented about Bill Robinson Theatre on Sep 14, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Here’s an old theater on the corners of Central and Jefferson Ave. that’s standing.

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I’m sure it hard to have been built around the same time as the Robinson to the north and the Lincoln theater to the south. All three within a few miles of each other, all on Central Ave.

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losangeleno commented about Bill Robinson Theatre on Sep 14, 2008 at 7:26 pm

The Robinson theater was located on Central Ave, between 43rd St. and 43rd Pl. on the west side of the street. Directly across the street from the Los Angeles Sentinel news paper, Civic meat market, and Lucy’s Supermarket.

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losangeleno commented about Bill Robinson Theatre on Sep 14, 2008 at 6:52 pm

As a small child, my family took me to the Robinson Theater to see Ben Hur. It was our neighborhood theater. As a young boy, I got a job cleaning and stacking bricks that were the remains of the demolished theater. Both the Robinson Theater, and the Dunbar Hotel were our pyramids of Giza, monuments of a civilization that had long since become passed away.