Wiltern Theatre

3790 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90010

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 21, 2009 at 1:07 am

Here is a photo circa 1940s from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00079/00079561.jpg

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 16, 2009 at 8:22 pm

Brian Wilson will be at the Wiltern at the end of the month:
http://tinyurl.com/8zt764

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 26, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Here is an undated interior photo from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/8x2q5n

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 9:02 pm

I’ve loaded some photos of the Vogue, the Bruin, the Stadium, and the Lido. Will do more as I get the time. Check ‘em out.

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 8:16 pm

I’ve got other really incredible photos, which I’m going to start linking to – I’ve already put up three of the Lido Theater on Pico and La Cienega, and later tonight I’m doing the Vogue, since I’m quite bored of looking at the photos there, which are all of the run-down decrepit current sad thing it’s become.

William
William on September 23, 2008 at 8:05 pm

I do too. The marquee looks great.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 23, 2008 at 8:00 pm

I liked the photo, though.

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 7:56 pm

Well, I’d remove the post but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do it. I’ll just use links from now on.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 23, 2008 at 7:38 pm

haines: While it’s easy enough for those who know markup code to embed an image in a Cinema Treasures page, it violates the site’s comment policy (fourth bullet point in section one.) As I don’t run the site, I don’t know the reason for the policy- though I surmise it may have something to do with the potential for copyright violations which could lead to legal problems for the site and, to a lesser extent, the problem of overly wide images stretching the pages horizontally, which would lead to a lot of work for the webmasters, removing those comments to restore the damaged pages.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 23, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Poor Nick Adams, part of the doomed “Rebel Wihout a Cause” cast, with James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo. The only one that didn’t die an unnatural death was Jim Backus.

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 5:28 pm

What??? Of course links are welcome – I was joking. I just didn’t know that you could post an actual photo in the comment box. Are you a cop?

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Links – we don’t need no stinking links :) Apparently, you can post photos right in the comment box – and I’m jiggy with that.

haineshisway
haineshisway on September 23, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Let’s see if this works – here’s an incredible photo I bought at a memorabilia show a couple of weeks ago – Nick Adams standing in front of the Wiltern Theater, where his name is above the title on the marquee.

haineshisway
haineshisway on July 8, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Finally, a photo from the good old days, when it was actually a movie theater.

kateymac01
kateymac01 on June 10, 2008 at 6:00 pm

It looked beautiful last night on “The Bachelorette.”

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on April 16, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Here is a 2002 photo from the LA Times site:
http://tinyurl.com/5afscq

monika
monika on April 9, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Here is a 2001 shot I took of the Wiltern:
View link

The fact that this theater is now a live venue is in no way upsetting to me, unlike what a previous poster felt. The fact that it still stands, and is in use for the arts, is something I think needs to be embraced by theater/theatre enthusiasts.