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Thomas Lincoln Tally (July 6, 1861 – November 24, 1945) [5] on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor.
The Carthay Circle Theater opened at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard on May 18, 1926, with a showing of The Volga Boatman (1926), [1] and was considered developer J. Harvey McCarthy's most successful monument, a stroke of shrewd thinking that made a famous name of the newly developed Carthay Center neighborhood [2] [3] in Los Angeles, California. [4]
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The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.
In 1917, the National was renamed as the Regent Theatre. In the 1920s, the emerging Broadway Theater District and its newer, more luxurious movie palaces began drawing crowds away from the Main Street theater collection, including the Regent. In turn, the venue's programming was changed from first-run films to second-run films. [1]
First of four homes of the Orpheum circuit in the city. [14] [16] [17] Lyceum Theatre, Los Angeles, second home of the circuit in Los Angeles, 227 S. Spring Street, (opened 1888, closed 1941). [14] The Orpheum Theatre in Portland, Oregon: built in 1913, remodeled in 1926 and demolished circa 1976. [18] [19] [20]
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($43.6 million in 2023) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after it opened and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($24.8 million in 2023).
It was the first movie theater in Downtown Los Angeles equipped to accommodate talking pictures. [2] It is now owned by the Broadway Theatre Group. [12] The space was refurbished in 2021 for an Apple Store. [19] Rialto Theater. Rialto Theater – Movie theater – Located at 812 S. Broadway, the Rialto opened as Quinn's Rialto, a nickelodeon ...