Palace of Pictures Theatre
642 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
642 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles,
CA
90013
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The building currently on this site has the name Forrester Building enscribed in stone on the top of the building. It was built in 1907. The vertical blade sign has the name ‘Bond’ which I believe was a store. Current use for the building (at street level) is the Pavo Real Jewelry Plaza.
The Palace of Pictures opened on April 25, 1915, in former retail space. The opening movie was Ruth Roland and Henry King in “The Price of Fame” & Ruth Roland & Henry King in “Who Pays?”. It was closed in February 1916.
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Well, the link works, but I still didn’t get it right. I wanted it to just say Chocolate Shop 1914.
Chocolate Shop 1914
Try, try, again…now it works.
vokoban: I just found these comments. I must have overlooked the e-mail notification. The dictionary at Answers.com says that “inst.” is simply and abbreviation for “instant”, which does itself come from Latin.
Unfortunately, the Batchelder site to which you linked has gone missing. Fortunately, it has been partly preserved by the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. Copy the Chocolate Shoppe URL and paste it into the Wayback Machine’s search box to get links to the surviving fragments of the site.
I found a picture at the USC archives a while ago, taken in 1913, which shows a view from Hill Street across rooftops toward Broadway. It shows that the two tall buildings currently to the south of the Palace theatre were already there, but only shows their upper floors, so there’s no indication of a theatre being in either of them. I went looking for the picture again (I saved it, but not the text page that goes with it), but can’t find it on the site now. Their text pages sometimes mention what was in the various buildings at the time the picture was taken.
Here is a 1906 picture from USC. The caption states that Tally’s Theater is pictured on 6th and Broadway. Not sure which building is the theater, though:
http://tinyurl.com/3ysc79
The Forrester Block, 638-642 S. Broadway, was built in 1907. The Palace of Pictures appears to have been converted from retail space in the building in 1914.
Here is an October 1915 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/2q3m3h
Dr. Breckwedel did own and manage the Symphony theater ,the palace of pictures the palace and he built the Forum theater. I am his granddaughter and I am collecting images to send to the site.
jbreckdsgn- am looking into doing a book on T.L. Tally & his theatres with a friend so please get in touch with me about your collection.
This opened on April 25th, 1915. Grand opening ad posted.
The description needs to be updated with the February, 1916 closing of this house, noted in an article of February 8 that year, cited in a comment by vokoban on January 2, 2006. The article noted the impending opening of the Palace Theatre on 7th Street by the operators of the Palace of Pictures, and the last line said that “[t]he present Palace of Pictures will cease to exist at the end of this week,” Its location was taken over by Innes Shoe Company.