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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 La Brea Theatre, also known as Chotiner's La Brea, Fox La Brea, Art La Brea and Toho La Brea was a single-screen movie theater in Los Angeles, California at 857 S. La Brea Avenue. The theatre was notable for being one of the few movie theatres showing Japanese films in the United States after World War II. It was built in the 1920s and had ...
Park La Brea (Spanish: La Brea—"The tar", after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California.With 4,255 units located in eighteen 13-story towers and thirty-one two-story buildings, it is among the largest apartment complexes in the continental United States. [1]
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...
Broadway Leasehold Building, built in 1914, was originally designed to house street-level retail with offices for Leasehold Company above. According to the United States Department of the Interior, the architect is unknown, [1] while other sources cite the architect as an employee of Milwaukee Building Company [6] /Meyer and Holler [7] and even more sources cite Meyer and Holler directly.
Postcard of Charlie Chaplin Studios, 1922 Share of the Chaplin Studios, Inc., issued 15. December 1926, assigned to Syd Chaplin. Many of Chaplin's classic films were shot at the studios, including The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and Limelight (1952).
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, also known as Egyptian Hollywood and the Egyptian, is a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [1] Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the world's first film premiere. [2]
Laemmle Theatres (/ ˈ l ɛ m l i / LEM-lee) is a Los Angeles-based arthouse movie theater chain owned and operated by Robert Laemmle and his son Greg. The company's first theater, bought in 1938 [1] by Robert's father Max and uncle Kurt, both cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, was located in Highland Park.