If you look at the business listings for this address, you get all kinds of stores, drugs, florists and so on. 17400 may be a general address for a large shopping mall. Subsequently the grocery store may not be housed in the old theater building.
Regarding the opening comments, I believe the El Miro was demolished before the Broadway was built. The El Miro has its own page on CT. Here is a photo of the Broadway from a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/6g6o5n
I was able to save that one, so if it goes down I can repost it.
Here is another preservation site with photos:
http://mfhuntridge.com/photo3.html
I wish I could help. I went to traffic school in Montebello about twelve years ago, and haven’t been back since.
Those crafty Canadians won’t let me copy this photo so the link won’t fail. Here is the third version of the 1934 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5zvpcl
The demolition video reminded me of those time-elapsed shots on the Discovery Channel where they show a dead zebra turning into a skeleton.
What’s with you and the marquees? Can’t we see the rest of the theater? Gee whiz.
A brief demolition video is here:
http://tinyurl.com/64rwte
I do. Everyone has left for the night here, so I talk to myself.
The link repairman has clocked in:
http://tinyurl.com/5fpewl
This page says late 70s or early 80s:
http://tinyurl.com/6omuxu
So the theater was demolished and replaced by a mini-mall, but no demolition date as of yet? Anyone know?
Very good, thanks.
Why the name? Any ideas? Too far from the beach?
Anybody want to loan me 2K for a ticket?
There was a crappy sequel to Reanimator, but it came out a couple of years later.
Was that from a colonoscopy?
The LAPL just posted a batch of photos from 1971:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073963.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073964.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073965.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073967.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073968.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073969.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073971.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073972.jpg
Here is a 1958 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/68mep5
Here is a 1958 movie ad:
http://tinyurl.com/5tof25
Here are two views, postcard and photo, from the 11/15/07 source:
http://tinyurl.com/6np72h
http://tinyurl.com/5fhpqo
Here is another old photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6p3tgy
Here is the theater’s website:
http://www.midwaydrivein.info/
I posted a 1914 lineup on another DTLA page, but I can’t recall which one. If I come across it I will put it on this page.
If you look at the business listings for this address, you get all kinds of stores, drugs, florists and so on. 17400 may be a general address for a large shopping mall. Subsequently the grocery store may not be housed in the old theater building.
Regarding the opening comments, I believe the El Miro was demolished before the Broadway was built. The El Miro has its own page on CT. Here is a photo of the Broadway from a few years ago:
http://tinyurl.com/6g6o5n