Pacific 1-2-3
6433 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6433 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Oh another thing I forgot – Carol was the usher for Aisle 2 when she got fired for trying to convince latecomers to wait a few minutes for a Hitchcock movie to end so they could see it from the beginning & mess up the ending for themselves. The couple complained to the manger because they wanted to sit down right then. When the Pacific closed years later, the people in charge had heard about the Hitchcock movie story and presented Carol with the original door to Aisle 2 which Carol had put up in her home as the door leading to her family room. Pretty cool story!!
Carol Burnett said the uniforms looked like a cross beween Harum costumes and Bukingham Palace guard uniforms – Harem pants, short jackets with gold epulets on the shoulders and a fez looking hat. Mr Batton was the mgr at that time.
In her current book, “This Time Together” Carol Burnett says she worked at the Warner Theater at Wilcox and Hollywood Blvd in the summer of 1951 when she was attending UCLA. She lived one block from the theater on Wilcox and Yucca. She earned 65 cents an hour at the Warner Theater!
Thanks for your post, it’s great to know the theater is in good hands.
Hey, all! I love this thread. I’m the lead pastor at Ecclesia and we have just celebrated 3 years in this amazing movie house. We are in LOVE with it and have been working with the owners and prop managers for the last 12 months to slowly renovate rooms.
We would love to see it restored to its glory. Of course, we lack funding for that, but we have been in constant communication with the city and the Hollywood BID to care for it and improve the block.
We are also participating in the 50th anniversary of the Walk of Fame on July 25 and screening something from the 60’s in honor of it. Keep an eye out. Nothing “churchie”, just a screening of something that played here.
Please feel free to come anytime on a Sundayâ€"the only reason we discourage “tourists” is because of a mandate from the landlord and for potential disruption to our worship services. Other than, every single person is welcomeâ€"even without a donation =).
It was fun working those Hollywood houses.
O.K.
DOCUMENTARY ON CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD CINEMAS – Lookn for interviewees, photos, videos of old hollywood
Hello,
I’m and independent filmmaker working on a documentary about old movie theatres in hollywood (Iris, Warner, Pacific, Hollywood, Vogue, Grauman’s Chinese, Egyptian etc..) that have had an impact on the hollywood community, both as a symbol of Hollywood as well as the historical and heritage effects it has had on “hollywood” as an industry. We are profiling theatres that are currently functioning as well as the obsolete. If you worked in these theatres back in the day (during their highlights) and have interesting stories to tell, photos to show, video to talk about I would like to hear from you. Many older movie houses are being demolished due to new developments and it is important to help future generation know and understand how these movie palaces have helped shaped the Hollywood we know today. If you have any photos or videos with personal stories you’d like to share, please contact me (323) 876-0975 – – You must owns the materials you are willing to share (taken the picture- recorded the videos, written the letters, etc…)
If you do have materials you’d like to send that may help in accurate information, you are welcome to send it to me.
Jorge Ameer
Classic Hollywood Cinemas
Box 3204
Hollywood, California 90028
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Here is a postcard circa 1930s:
http://tinyurl.com/ya7sd57
I also love what is playing at three theaters mentioned right above the ad! Ah, the 1950s – we had it all then, Cinerama, 3D, Todd-AO, and great B&W sci-fi and horror movies.
Here is an LA Times ad from September 1958:
http://tinyurl.com/yg2ndcj
The Pacific should be retrofitted into a 3D cinema.
The widescreen redo is from 1978.
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If this theatre were ever restored I would have mixed emotions because I love the 60’s/70’s era widescreen redo of the main floor auditorium.
Does anyone know what the storefronts on Wilcox were used for? Today there are what look like bases for flag poles on the Wilcox facade above the storefronts. If those were used for flags, that must have been quite a sight, as there are a bunch of them. Of course, it could have had another use altogether!
Check out the newly revised Wikipedia article on this theatre, especially the part about Carol Burnett’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:
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I only saw one movie here: Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” on opening day (which was the same night as my prom). Place was GINORMOUS! It’s a shame I never returned here when it was operating…then again that ain’t exactly my fault. The theatre switched to 2nd run double features during my years in college when I came home for summer vacation.
I finally figured out that this was the theatre with KFWB’s towers on top (still there). There was a smaller building connected/next to the theatre (now a parking lot) that was the actual KFWB studios in the 60’s. Also, Aldo’s Restaurant was under the KFWB building and a big hangout for music industry types in the 60’s (Aldo’s is where Sonny Bono and Cher met in early ‘63). I had been there as a child but just could not remember where it was (as the KFWB building is gone).
From the LA Times in January 1982. Morgan Fairchild was hot, back in the day:
http://tinyurl.com/maqef2
Here are two June 2009 photographs I took of the Pacific:
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They did when a special event was being done there.
Does anyone know if the Pacific’s marquee lights are ever illuminated?
Here is an interior photo circa 1930s:
http://tinyurl.com/l9gfne
There are some nice shots of the Warner and Grauman’s about a minute into this film. Don’t bother watching the rest as they head off in a different direction.
http://tinyurl.com/oqjhrb