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Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States.The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district ...
Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District stretches for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets along South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, and contains twelve movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931. In 1986, Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith called the district "the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America." [4]
The Arcade Theatre is a historic former vaudeville and movie theater in the Broadway district of Los Angeles, California.Commissioned by real estate developer William May Garland in 1910, it originally operated under the direction of Alexander Pantages.
The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2,000-seat historic movie palace at 615 S. Broadway in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of Downtown Los Angeles. History [ edit ]
Bringing Back Broadway is a public–private partnership begun in 2008 and led by Councilmember José Huizar, with Executive Director Jessica Wethington McLean, to revitalize the historic Broadway corridor of Los Angeles.
In 1883, the Los Angeles school board purchased land fronting both Broadway and Spring Street, mid-block between Fifth and Sixth streets, for $12,500 ($421,830 in 2024). Spring Street School was then built on the land. [3] [4] In 1904, the school board put the land up for lease but retained the material in the schoolhouse. [5] C.
Having experienced the work on Broadway in 2019, ... But the enhanced diversity of the Los Angeles production sharpens our awareness of the way the characters are understood in the context of ...
The building, which extends half a block along 7th St and one-third of a block along Broadway, was the largest brick-clad building in the world when it was completed [6] and remains one of the largest brick-clad buildings in Los Angeles today. [5] The theatre originally boasted two marquees [5] with entrances on both Broadway and 7th. The 7th ...