Iris Theatre
6415 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6415 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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The Idyl Hour Theatre was opened in 1913 by P. Tabor, who had successfully operated his first Idyl Hour Theatre for the previous two years at 6265 Hollywood Boulvevard, just east of Vine Street.
Soon after opening it was renamed Iris Theatre. The Iris Theatre was so successful, that Tabor built a new Iris Theatre across the street in 1918. The old Iris Theatre was possibly demolished when construction began in 1927 on the Hollywood Warner Theatre (later Pacific). In 2009, the site of the first Iris Theatre is an empty plot to the east of the Pacific 1-2-3 Theatre near the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and N. Cahuenga Boulevard.
As a footnote; The second Iris Theatre (which has its own separate page on Cinema Treasures) was renamed Fox Theatre on December 20, 1968, and closed in 1994. It stood empty and unused for over ten years, and was converted into a nightclub/bar.
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Ken Roe
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It could be that the Hollywood Lutherian Church held their meetings in this building, rather than the ‘new’ Iris Theatre across the Boulevard.
This first Iris Theatre closed in 1918 and could have been unused until it was demolished around 1927, so was probably available for use by the church. The ‘new’ Iris Theatre would have been operating as a busy movie theatre from 1918 onwards, so I would have thought unlikely to have been available for other uses.
In the 1915 city directory, the theater was listed as the Iris at 6417 Hollywood Blvd.