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The ACME Comedy Theatre is an American sketch comedy and improvisational theater located near Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, [1] on La Brea near Wilshire's "Miracle Mile". [ 2 ] ACME was started by M.D. Sweeney as "The Two Roads Theater" in Studio City in 1989 with Cynthia Szigeti . [ 3 ]
1927 Los Angeles Times map of Leimert Park and surrounding area, including (4) proposed connection of Santa Barbara Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) with Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) via a new 133-foot-wide Leimert Boulevard and (7) paving and widening of Angeles Mesa Drive with two roadways from Vernon south to 79th Street
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
The avenue numbers generally reflect the Los Angeles street grid beginning with Avenue 16 at the 1600 block north of 1st Street in Downtown through Avenue 67 at the 6700 block in Highland Park. [4] North of the Los Angeles River Pasadena Avenue and Figueroa Street assume the role of Main Street and divide house numbers on streets running east ...
The theater became one of the first in the United States built specifically to show movies. [4] In 1921, a US$50,000 Wurlitzer organ was installed in the theater. [5] In 1924, Los Angeles theater proprietor H. L. Gumbinger closed the facility for renovation. The overhaul included the addition of a 16-piece house orchestra. [6]
The STILE Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa, is a limited-service boutique hotel and former office tower located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It is home to the accompanying theatre, The United Theater on Broadway. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its completion in 1927, and was the tallest ...
The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway , it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
Downtown Los Angeles's Paramount Theatre opened as Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre on January 26, 1923.The building was financed by the Hill Street Fireproof Building Company, designed by George Edwin Bergstrom with the theater and building interior designed by William Lee Woollett, all for impresario Sid Grauman, [2] known at the time for the Million Dollar Theatre and best remembered today ...