Thanks for that info. So it is confirmed that the theater was named Vagabond because of being next door to the Vagabond’s House restaurant, which was named after the Don Blanding poem. The link I posted above has a 1950 architectural rendering of the theater at the end.
So nobody has a photo of the exterior of the Vagabond? I am trying to find out if it was always called THE VAGABOND, or if it was re-christened into that when in 1946 Joe Chastek (previously owner of the Zamboanga nightclub on Slauson) opened his “Vagabond’s House” Polynesian restaurant next door (which later became La Fonda):
He took the name from Don Blanding’s poem “Vagabond’s House”, which was published in 1928, two years after the building which houses the theatre was built. It seems likely to me that the theatre had another name when it opened in 1926, and then was renamed.
Thanks for that info. So it is confirmed that the theater was named Vagabond because of being next door to the Vagabond’s House restaurant, which was named after the Don Blanding poem. The link I posted above has a 1950 architectural rendering of the theater at the end.
So nobody has a photo of the exterior of the Vagabond? I am trying to find out if it was always called THE VAGABOND, or if it was re-christened into that when in 1946 Joe Chastek (previously owner of the Zamboanga nightclub on Slauson) opened his “Vagabond’s House” Polynesian restaurant next door (which later became La Fonda):
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He took the name from Don Blanding’s poem “Vagabond’s House”, which was published in 1928, two years after the building which houses the theatre was built. It seems likely to me that the theatre had another name when it opened in 1926, and then was renamed.