Sunset Theatre
1508 N. Western Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90027
1508 N. Western Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90027
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This theatre has been demolished.
It was annihilated sometime on or about the second week of October 2003.
It is unclear where the seats, concession stand or anything else from the interior went.
All that remains currently is a wreckage-strewn empty lot.
In its pre-Pussy days, this theater was The Sunset. A friend of mine who is the nephew of the Sunset’s owner tells me that he saw Bob Hope there. I’m told that Marlon Brando and Bobby Kennedy also came to see the “art” films. It went Pussy Cat in late 1962/early 1963.
I remember Jim Childs used to leave the booth when the film was running at the Sunset Pussycat and walk across the street to McDonalds for a burger and fries. One time an usher came running over and out of breath and told Jim Childs that some thing was wrong with the film. Jim went back and up to the booth and looked out the port. The film was out of frame. Now Jim was at McDonalds for about 25 minutes so the film had to be out of frame at least 25 minutes or longer because the usher ran all over the neighborhood looking for Mr. Childs. Everyone in the theatre had to watch a film out of frame for at least 25 minutes. That was probably the longest in cinema history that anyone watched a film out of frame. They set a new world’s record of watching a film out of frame in a theatre.
That’s nothing Mr. Childs. I took 2 old cinemascope lens from the Wardman Pussycat and I still have them. Dennis
I worked as relief projectionist at Sunset when it was called Sunset Pussycat chain.
At that time they ran X rated films in 35MM. with century projectors.
I worked there from July of 1980 to September of 1987.
I took 2 old cement film splicers from the projection booth there.
When I moved to the city of Seattle Washington in May of 1990.
I still have them.
From Big Jim Childs