I know that the Panorama Building & Panorama Skating Rink was on the same spot and has almost the exact same footprint. If the Rex was there it must have been pretty large unless it took up one of the spaces in front of the Hippodrome. Since the Hippodrome was in the exact center of the whole block going all four directions, there would have been room to have a theater in front of it. The addresses could have been moved around.
Glovedude…I’ve been in the Palace bathrooms which is a strange experience…you are under the sidewalk with those purple glass tiles above you with people walking over you as you go.
What I’d give to be able to see one of those rats you saw and still have the theater intact…..You’re lucky you didn’t run into the Reverend Jim Jones there in the 70’s….I think I put a comment about it on the Westlake Theater page.
Okoku, maybe I don’t understand your enthusiasm or I’m just confused, but this website is titled Cinema Treasures-Discover.Preserve.Protect……The Linda Lea has been demolished. There’s no preservation or protection there unless you count the two side walls. I would call the situation the opposite of the idea of this site. Also most or all of the original Chinatown was demolished to build Union Station back in the 30’s. I don’t know if there were any theaters there.
ken mc & joe vogel….I’d like to share an overlay map I’m working on for the stretch of Main from Alameda to Olympic in six sections. If you’re interested, send me an email. It’s in pdf form. It’s 1906 overlayed on 2007.
ken mc & joe vogel….I’d like to share an overlay map I’m working on for the stretch of Main from Alameda to Olympic in six sections. If you’re interested, send me an email. It’s in pdf form. It’s 1906 overlayed on 2007.
I went in here last winter one night when all the side doors were open and they were filming something in there. I don’t think there are any seats and there is some kind of new stage that is like a runway coming out. The stage might have been for whatever they were filming but I’m pretty sure that there are no seats.
i’m pretty sure that the house in this photo is the same building as the picture that ken mc posted although it looks much nicer and there’s a horse and buggy:
I think this is the correct theater, but i don’t know the name it is listed under on here but here are the dates and names of the theater at that spot…i think:
Walker Theater(1908-1910)
Nielsen Theater(1910)
Walker Theater(1910-1912)
Mozart Theater(1912-1916)
Grand Avenue Theater(1923-1924)
Fine Arts Theater(1924)
Orange Grove Theater(1924-1929)
Actors' Theater(1929-1935)
Grand International Theater(1935-1937)
Grand Theater(1937-1946)
ken mc…i can’t remember the name of that theater…maybe Joe will remember. One of us posted it on another page and then I found a picture of that building on the corner when it was just a pretty home.
I never said the Queen Mary was built for that purpose….I said that the enclosed theater within the ship was built for that purpose….and i also already said that I never planned on adding it to Cinema Treasures….I think someone maybe just likes to argue about nothing…or I could be wrong. The silly thing is that there is nothing remotely controversial or debatable in this discussion.
Well, it was built specifically to show movies as a theater…I don’t think just because its on a ship really matters even though I’m not much interested in theaters built after 1950. It’s not like a plane or somewhere where they happen to show movies at times.
I know that the Panorama Building & Panorama Skating Rink was on the same spot and has almost the exact same footprint. If the Rex was there it must have been pretty large unless it took up one of the spaces in front of the Hippodrome. Since the Hippodrome was in the exact center of the whole block going all four directions, there would have been room to have a theater in front of it. The addresses could have been moved around.
I think I have some more but they are on a list at work…I’ll look tomorrow.
you can see it in the edge of this 40’s(?) photo:
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Also, in that movie called The Street With No Name I think its a penny arcade with winos stumbling out of it.
The King Of Kings was released in 1928….so that’s probably correct.
where did you get that? from the library?
I watched them clean the north side on 8th….At one point they had half clean and half dirty and the difference was striking.
Glovedude…I’ve been in the Palace bathrooms which is a strange experience…you are under the sidewalk with those purple glass tiles above you with people walking over you as you go.
What I’d give to be able to see one of those rats you saw and still have the theater intact…..You’re lucky you didn’t run into the Reverend Jim Jones there in the 70’s….I think I put a comment about it on the Westlake Theater page.
Okoku, maybe I don’t understand your enthusiasm or I’m just confused, but this website is titled Cinema Treasures-Discover.Preserve.Protect……The Linda Lea has been demolished. There’s no preservation or protection there unless you count the two side walls. I would call the situation the opposite of the idea of this site. Also most or all of the original Chinatown was demolished to build Union Station back in the 30’s. I don’t know if there were any theaters there.
Maybe the Toho La Brea did….
ken mc & joe vogel….I’d like to share an overlay map I’m working on for the stretch of Main from Alameda to Olympic in six sections. If you’re interested, send me an email. It’s in pdf form. It’s 1906 overlayed on 2007.
ken mc & joe vogel….I’d like to share an overlay map I’m working on for the stretch of Main from Alameda to Olympic in six sections. If you’re interested, send me an email. It’s in pdf form. It’s 1906 overlayed on 2007.
Or standing room only….
That new zoom thing is really clunky but I guess its better than nothing.
I went in here last winter one night when all the side doors were open and they were filming something in there. I don’t think there are any seats and there is some kind of new stage that is like a runway coming out. The stage might have been for whatever they were filming but I’m pretty sure that there are no seats.
I wonder what Junior Orpheum means…
i’m pretty sure that the house in this photo is the same building as the picture that ken mc posted although it looks much nicer and there’s a horse and buggy:
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I think this is the correct theater, but i don’t know the name it is listed under on here but here are the dates and names of the theater at that spot…i think:
Walker Theater(1908-1910)
Nielsen Theater(1910)
Walker Theater(1910-1912)
Mozart Theater(1912-1916)
Grand Avenue Theater(1923-1924)
Fine Arts Theater(1924)
Orange Grove Theater(1924-1929)
Actors' Theater(1929-1935)
Grand International Theater(1935-1937)
Grand Theater(1937-1946)
ken mc…i can’t remember the name of that theater…maybe Joe will remember. One of us posted it on another page and then I found a picture of that building on the corner when it was just a pretty home.
The Conservancy does extend to East LA….here’s a link about it, but I don’t know how current it is:
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alright…maybe i wasn’t clear….let’s just sink that ship
I never said the Queen Mary was built for that purpose….I said that the enclosed theater within the ship was built for that purpose….and i also already said that I never planned on adding it to Cinema Treasures….I think someone maybe just likes to argue about nothing…or I could be wrong. The silly thing is that there is nothing remotely controversial or debatable in this discussion.
I have a feeling that soon we will be seeing Guess ads or Calvin Klein ads in the billboard sized spaces where it says newsreel.
Well, it was built specifically to show movies as a theater…I don’t think just because its on a ship really matters even though I’m not much interested in theaters built after 1950. It’s not like a plane or somewhere where they happen to show movies at times.
I wasn’t going to add it….just wondered since its pretty much stuck in Long Beach now.