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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.
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 ...
The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917, as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris, Coulter's department store from 1905–1917, and J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895–1915.
Majestic Theatre, 845 S. Broadway. Opened in 1908, sat 1,600, and was built for Asher Hamburger by Edelman & Barnett with interior decoration by Antoon Molkenboer nl. Demolished in 1933, site of a parking lot until the 2010s, and now a complex of high-end fashion stores. [35] Shell Theatre, 547 S. Broadway.
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The Tower was the first theater designed by architect S. Charles Lee. [3] Seating 900 on a tiny site (50 feet wide by 153 feet long [ 5 ] ), replacing the 650-seat 1911 Garrick Theatre, [ 6 ] it was designed in powerful Baroque Revival style with innovative French , Spanish , Moorish , and Italian elements all executed in terra-cotta . [ 3 ]
The Broadway-Manchester neighborhood touches Florence on the north, Green Meadows on the east, Vermont Knolls and Willowbrook on the south and Vermont Vista on the west. [2] It is bounded by Manchester Boulevard on the north, San Pedro Street on the east, the Los Angeles City boundary on the south and Interstate 110 on the west. [1]
The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917, as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris, Coulter's department store from 1905–1917, and J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895–1915.