Granada Theatre
1044 Temple Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90012
1044 Temple Street,
Los Angeles,
CA
90012
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Previous Names: Owl Theatre
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This theatre was opened in 1913 without a specific name. It was designed by the Milwaukee Building Co. By 1917 it had been named Owl Theatre. Later renamed Granada Theatre, it was one of the many independent theatres that was part of Los Angeles.
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Here is a 1942 photo of the Granada:
http://tinyurl.com/2cdl5q
I have my doubts as to whether the building is still there. There’s not much left on that part of Temple Street, west of downtow. I will swing by and take a look the next time I’m down there.
The Granada’s building has been gone for quite a while. The site is now part of a parking lot for a blocky office building which I think was put up in the 1970s.
I’ve come across several Cinema Treasures pages which erroneously listed theatres as closed/demolished when they were only closed. Now I always check the latest aerial photos from Google maps or TerraServer, and see if I can generate a report on the address from ZIMAS (if it’s in the City of Los Angeles) just to make sure.
That’s what’s especially useful about the ZIMAS reports from the city’s zoning department. They have the latest information from the County Assessor, plus they include the years of construction for any buildings on the property.
The west is the best. Get here, and we’ll do the rest.
The theater at 1044 Temple Street was included in the Motion Picture Theatres section of the 1915 and 1917 city directories, but was listed only under the name Mansdorfer W. H. in 1915. By 1917 it was listed as the Owl Theatre.
Although the building has been demolished so it can’t be checked in the records of the County Assessor’s office, I think that the Granada was probably this proposed theater that was mentioned in the October 12, 1912, issue of Southwest Contractor & Manufacturer:
My step grandfathers rental company owned the building for some time. My father was a care taker for the building. The roof collapsed some time in 1968/69. In the middle of the night.
The Granada shows up briefly in the 1924 Harold Lloyd film “Girl Shy.”
Go here for a 1963 image of the Granada—
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7391/27511409016_ebbdf3b2db_o.png
This is an image from this movie http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll88/id/1429/rec/1 recently digitized by USC from the City Archives.