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Metropolitan Theatres was founded by Joseph Corwin in 1923. [2] At the time, the Corwin family operated almost every movie theater in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, the city's premiere theater venue until Hollywood was built up in the 1920s and 30s. [1] [4] [5] In the 1950s, Metropolitan Theatres expanded into Santa Barbara. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4] Designed by S. Charles Lee, [5] and Samuel Tilden Norton, the theater features a French Baroque interior.
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
Tesla has begun hiring for a diner with a drive-in movie theater it plans to open in Los Angeles.. The EV manufacturer is seeking a “Diner Experience Specialist” who will help oversee the ...
The Regent Theatre is a live music venue and historic former movie theater in the Downtown section of Los Angeles, California. Opened as the National Theatre in 1914, it is the oldest remaining theater building on South Main Street .
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 .