Alameda Theatre
5136 Whittier Boulevard,
East Los Angeles,
CA
90022
5136 Whittier Boulevard,
East Los Angeles,
CA
90022
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Fox Circuit, United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Architects: Clifford A. Balch, Percy A. Eisen, A. R. Walker
Firms: Walker & Eisen
Functions: Retail
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: United Artists Theatre
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The Alameda Theatre was a sister to the Four Star Theatre in Los Angeles, the United Artist Theatre, Pasadena, and the United Artist Theatre, Long Beach. From 1972 until it closed in 1986 it screened Spanish language movies.
Contributed by
William Gabel
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Recent comments (view all 21 comments)
Here is a 1983 photo. Maybe I should show this to the owner of the building.
http://tinyurl.com/cagrpn
Here is a 1981 photo. You can see the top of the Golden Gate theater in the background.
http://tinyurl.com/dlmcnu
You will also see it briefly in two shots of Whittier boulevard at night, with marquee lights bright and glowing in the film “Boulevard Nights”.
Not only was that retail store once a movie theatre, it was once a movie star.
JM
http://jpdavid.blogspot.com/
Yeah, just saw this theater in the 1979 film “Boulevard Nights.” The ese vato younger brother “Chuco” walks right in front of it as he wanders the nightlife of East L.A watching to make sure that “11th Street” don’t put a filero in his back.
does anybody recall snow white and the seven dwarfs playing at this theater.
Does anyone remember when this theater was called the United Artist the Ua for short. It was a great little theater, not the golden Gate but nice theater.
Closed 1986. Spanish movies from 1972-1986.
Currently some type of “dollar” store.
I just tried to add a nice 1938 view of the theater, when it was the United Artists, but this site has become very hard to navigate, and I couldn’t get it uploaded. And it’s not as though I’m some senile old geezer; I’ve loaded many photos here, over the years. I give up.
Sometimes this site is really slow. I’ve in the past had to convert photos from JPEG to PNG or back again to get them to post. To get CT to read them differently or something.