This article from last month refers to the Alcazar, but I assume they’re talking about the Uptown, since the Alcazar on this page is long gone. http://tinyurl.com/5mtrtq
Did you see the “Hinckley” plate at the top of the building? I would imagine that this building pre-existed the theater. That early they were probably weren’t building too many houses just for film exhibition. Weren’t they mostly storefronts around then?
Here is an event that took place at the theater in May 2007. I think the name should be changed to Empire Arts Center.
http://tinyurl.com/5z7fsd
This article from last month refers to the Alcazar, but I assume they’re talking about the Uptown, since the Alcazar on this page is long gone.
http://tinyurl.com/5mtrtq
Australia?
There is a small photo on the lumberyard site:
http://tinyurl.com/5wo47e
Here is a 2002 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5zmj7f
I think the function change to housing/retail is a little premature, as they haven’t finished the renovation yet.
Here is an undated postcard from the NYPL:
http://tinyurl.com/6bozqy
Sorry, that was the New York public library. Force of habit.
Here is an undated interior photo from the LAPL:
http://tinyurl.com/68jkhg
Here is another one:
http://tinyurl.com/5wyjef
Here is an undated postcard from the NYPL:
http://tinyurl.com/66ba6f
This is a different view of the photo posted on 7/12/07:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics25/00032407.jpg
I can’t fix the links, I don’t know how.
Here are some LAPL photos from the twenties:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics37/00038121.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics37/00038123.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics37/00038120.jpg
There was a good shot in one of my earlier additions, but I can’t find it now.
Isn’t there an IMAX in Atlantic City now? That means the Ventnor would not be the last remaining theater on Absecon Island.
These USC links are not very reliable. Here is another shot from 1941:
http://tinyurl.com/568x8r
Here is a 1960 photo from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/5cv42w
The Westminster bites the dust, 2/24/60. Photo is from the USC archives:
http://tinyurl.com/6yt24c
No, it’s a re-creation of a crime involving some shooting back and forth.
Here is a new addition from the LA Library. Looks like an early episode of CSI:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics53/00076438.jpg
Here is a new addition from the LA Library. The photo is dated 1983:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics53/00076437.jpg
Did you see the “Hinckley” plate at the top of the building? I would imagine that this building pre-existed the theater. That early they were probably weren’t building too many houses just for film exhibition. Weren’t they mostly storefronts around then?
The UA theater in downtown LA is still a church.
The drive-in screens were directly behind where the Towne multiplex is now. Walk behind the theater and then straight ahead about three hundred yards.