I spent many Saturday afternoons and just as many quarters watching
the matinee features and serials at the FOURM in the 40’s.
After visiting the URL provided by ken mc of the aerial view of the Forum Theatre,
I found additional image at the same LAPL (LA Public Library) site. View link
Some are interior shots some are exterior duplicates.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought some might be interested in a bit of local
history, before it is lost entirely. This was my neighborhood as a really young
boy.
On Pico Blvd and across Norton Ave east of the theater stood the Forum Market complete with
iron fold-away front, crank-down awnings and roll-away fruit and vegetable gondolas
which were pushed onto the sidewalk every morning and back inside at closing.
It was a huge market which teamed with customers all day long, it had nearly everything
and every service you could possibly want. Truly a forum.
In addition to the departments ordinarily found in the super-markets of today,
the Forum also had a sit down deli, a dry cleaner, an enormous glassed-in bakery with
a gas fired, continuously revolving baking shelves and a real meat department. There were also
a post office, a jewelry/watch repair booth, and a drug-store.
I spent many Saturday afternoons and just as many quarters watching
the matinee features and serials at the FOURM in the 40’s.
After visiting the URL provided by ken mc of the aerial view of the Forum Theatre,
I found additional image at the same LAPL (LA Public Library) site.
View link
Some are interior shots some are exterior duplicates.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought some might be interested in a bit of local
history, before it is lost entirely. This was my neighborhood as a really young
boy.
On Pico Blvd and across Norton Ave east of the theater stood the Forum Market complete with
iron fold-away front, crank-down awnings and roll-away fruit and vegetable gondolas
which were pushed onto the sidewalk every morning and back inside at closing.
It was a huge market which teamed with customers all day long, it had nearly everything
and every service you could possibly want. Truly a forum.
In addition to the departments ordinarily found in the super-markets of today,
the Forum also had a sit down deli, a dry cleaner, an enormous glassed-in bakery with
a gas fired, continuously revolving baking shelves and a real meat department. There were also
a post office, a jewelry/watch repair booth, and a drug-store.