I don’t have any outside info as to where the theater was situated, but the 1949 picture would appear to put it on the beach side. Perhaps it was near the Venice Pier and the surrounding amusement area.
Are you referring to the 1949 photo or the 1938 photo? I had a question about the location of the later photo as it appears to be on the beach side of Ocean Front Walk.
This photo shows the Broadway at the north end of the street. It’s a little hard to make out, but it shows you the location relative to the other businesses. The photo of Chicken Boy is a bonus: http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008061.jpg
I doubt if anyone will wax nostalgic when the Wells Fargo building on Bunker Hill is razed fifty or sixty years from now. “That was a great skyscraper, wasn’t it?”
I thought this 1946 photo was interesting as it shows the theater as being open all night. As I have read, many theaters were open 24 hours during the war as the workers were on staggered shifts. This may have been a carryover: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics05/00022471.jpg
The Regent is being renovated, possibly for live performances. Construction was ongoing when I walked by today. The auditorium has been stripped. There was a sign next to the cashier’s booth forbidding sex and alcohol in the theater, a carryover from the adult theater days.
The Regent is being renovated, possibly for live performances. The boards were off today, and work was going on inside. The auditorium has been completely stripped, as far as I could tell. There is a sign by the cashier’s booth inside forbidding sex and alcohol inside the theater, a carryover from the aduly film days.
This site states, inaccurately I believe, that the State was called the Minnesota in 1929. According to CT, there was a Minnesota Theater at another address: http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/ae2.asp
LM, I think you’re right. The odds would be against two similar-names theaters a block and a half apart. The blocks in the urban areas of Philadelphia are for the most part narrow as it was all rowhouses. Subsequently, the two addresses wouldn’t be too far apart.
Here is a set of photographs of the Earle. Unfortunately, you can’t expand the thumbnails without a subscription to the website: http://tinyurl.com/g7tol
This theater has been sold. The new owners will show silent films as well as more recent pictures. The theater will probably de-emphasize the silent film aspect. Whether the theater’s name will change is unknown.
This is another LA Library photo from the 1930s:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008028.jpg
I don’t have any outside info as to where the theater was situated, but the 1949 picture would appear to put it on the beach side. Perhaps it was near the Venice Pier and the surrounding amusement area.
This is a photo of the Broadway entrance, which Ken Roe has said existed from only 1923 to 1929:
http://tinyurl.com/jua7f
Are you referring to the 1949 photo or the 1938 photo? I had a question about the location of the later photo as it appears to be on the beach side of Ocean Front Walk.
This photo shows the Broadway at the north end of the street. It’s a little hard to make out, but it shows you the location relative to the other businesses. The photo of Chicken Boy is a bonus:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008061.jpg
This 1938 photo was taken at the same time as William Gabel’s photo at the top of the page:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015712.jpg
Everybody loves a revival:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics50/00059885.jpg
I doubt if anyone will wax nostalgic when the Wells Fargo building on Bunker Hill is razed fifty or sixty years from now. “That was a great skyscraper, wasn’t it?”
Here is a 1946 photo of the Rialto, with the Music Hall a bit north:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028847.jpg
I thought this 1946 photo was interesting as it shows the theater as being open all night. As I have read, many theaters were open 24 hours during the war as the workers were on staggered shifts. This may have been a carryover:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics05/00022471.jpg
Here is a 1949 photo from the LA Library:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009146.jpg
The GCC Northeast was on or near the intersection of Welsh Road and Roosevelt Boulevard. I think it’s listed here on CT.
The Main has been converted to retail space. There is no trace of the theater remaining, but the narrow interior suggests an auditorium.
The Regent is being renovated, possibly for live performances. Construction was ongoing when I walked by today. The auditorium has been stripped. There was a sign next to the cashier’s booth forbidding sex and alcohol in the theater, a carryover from the adult theater days.
The Regent is being renovated, possibly for live performances. The boards were off today, and work was going on inside. The auditorium has been completely stripped, as far as I could tell. There is a sign by the cashier’s booth inside forbidding sex and alcohol inside the theater, a carryover from the aduly film days.
This is a January 2005 article about the re-opening of the Varsity:
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/01/21/62864
This site states, inaccurately I believe, that the State was called the Minnesota in 1929. According to CT, there was a Minnesota Theater at another address:
http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/ae2.asp
I dated a girl in the early 1980s that lived in this neighborhood, but I don’t recall seeing a movie theater. It may have been gone by then.
LM, I think you’re right. The odds would be against two similar-names theaters a block and a half apart. The blocks in the urban areas of Philadelphia are for the most part narrow as it was all rowhouses. Subsequently, the two addresses wouldn’t be too far apart.
Here is a set of photographs of the Earle. Unfortunately, you can’t expand the thumbnails without a subscription to the website:
http://tinyurl.com/g7tol
This theater has been sold. The new owners will show silent films as well as more recent pictures. The theater will probably de-emphasize the silent film aspect. Whether the theater’s name will change is unknown.
Here is an interesting article about the Camden and drive-ins in general:
http://www.matchflick.com/column/1021
Here is the latest news. Note the reference to CT at the beginning of the article:
http://tinyurl.com/ehvwx
There is a photo of the theater on this page:
http://bigscreen.execpc.com/history/widen.php
There is a photo on this page, but it doesn’t show much of the theater:
http://bigscreen.execpc.com/history/widen.php