Comments from kencmcintyre

This picture is partially duplicated above, but you get a better shot of the West Coast and the adjacent Imperial (from the LA Library):

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014919.jpg

Here is another photo, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036925.jpg

Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015348.jpg

I think it is a historic district.

Here is another picture, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015684.jpg

Here is an uncropped shot, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015375.jpg

A picture, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015652.jpg

Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library. The library database says that Crenshaw Boulevard was previously called Angeles Mesa Drive. I did not know this.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015413.jpg

This is interesting. I don’t see that anyone mentioned a previous incarnation as the Fairfax Theater. If you look at this picture from the LAPL database, the theater takes up about half the block on Fairfax heading up towards Canter’s. If you walk south from Canter’s (today) on the west side of Fairfax, you can see a painted sign advertising an unidentified theater on the side of the building, somewhat below where the free-standing sign is in the picture.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015285.jpg

Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015321.jpg

Here is another interesting shot:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015200.jpg

I think this sign is still in the alley:
(Courtesy of the LA Library)

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015042.jpg

The LA Library thinks that this theater was converted into a dry cleaners. Are they correct?

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015017.jpg