Hologram USA Hollywood Theater
6656 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6656 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Here is a 1951 photo from UCLA:
http://tinyurl.com/23e7oa
The Masque was located underneath this theater.
I remember passing the Ritz when I was on Hollywood Blvd a couple weeks ago. The only difference between the photo Lost Memory posted, and currently (I didn’t take a photo) is that the “I” has since fallen off in “Ritz”….
Here’s an aerial view of the Ritz. If you scroll slightly to the right a block, you can also see the Eqyptian Theater, with it’s courtyard:
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The New View was showing “Bonnie and Clyde in January 1968:
http://tinyurl.com/ykhrs3
From the Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photo Collection:
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Does anyone know the telephone # for the church on site of the old Hollywood Cat? I would like to speak to the Padre about obtaining the old Pussycat marque.
Tim David
970.309.3991
The New View can be seen very briefly toward the end of the film “The Zodiac Killer” (1971), along with quick shots of the Vogue, Hollywood and Pacific 1-2-3.
Deep Throat/Devil in Miss Jones played here for over 8 years continuously! The film to replace it was the John Holmes “documentary” called Exhausted (1981), a film which largely served as the inspiration for the 1997 film Boogie Nights.
Brief footage of this theater(as the New View) pops up on the DVD of Meatrack/Sticks and Stones by SWV/Image. One of the bonus features is footage from a 1970 Hollywood Gay Pride Parade and you can see the theater’s marquee.
I have great story about this location..I thought I would share it with ya'all.
In the early eighties the basement was rented out to a couple guys that wanted to turn it into a punk club. They did. I was with my Mom when she showed them the proporty to the guys. It was a old radio/ recording studio. It had grafette on every wall and it had the stench of mold. It was dark, dank and really a scary place…
Anyway, My Dad (Vince Miranda) loved the fact that this building was
the first high rise in Hollywood. He thought it was the coolest
building. It had a really old and beautiful elevator. I remember
riding it down to that spooky basement.
One day My Dad came home pissed as Hell. It turns out that that incredible elevator was destroyed by the punk partiers by trying to get a live cow into the basement via the antique elevator. Needless to say my Dad was forced to replace the entire thing.
Tim David
My father owned the Pussycat chain. I am trying to find a old Pussycat marquee. You know..the white oval with the silouette of a Ms. Pussycat. It is rumored that is a silouette of my mom. Please< if you have any info about any of these old marquees …let me know.
Thanks alot!
Tim David
510 East Durant
Aspen, Co 81611
970.309.3991
The New View Theatre is located at 6656 Hollywood Blvd.
The New View Theatre opened in 1940 and showed exclusively newsreels. It was designed by Harry Wright of reinforced concrete with a terrazzo lobby. It was a Pussycat Theatre till around 1991.
I won a bid as projectionst on this in 1984 at that time they ran x rated as part of the Pussycat chain.
This was the second booth job I won and the only automated that I ran.
Till went to work at the Wardman Pussycat in up town Whitter,CA. in 1986.
I had a good friend who worked the projection across the street at, Volge.
I had a lot of fun when I worked this projection booth.
One day I took the day off sick to go to the 1984 Olympic Games with good friend Dennis Prise.
Who be came chief projectionist at the CINERAMA DOME for ten years.
I also took two panatar scope lens out of this projection booth!
From James Childs
Address 6341 5th Ave.N.E. Apt.#502
Seattle,WA.98115
Ph.#(206)527-7886