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The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2,000-seat historic movie palace at 615 S. Broadway in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of ...
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 Tower was the first film house in Los Angeles to be wired for talking pictures, and it was the location of the sneak preview and Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros.' revolutionary part-talking The Jazz Singer (1927), starring Al Jolson. [8] [4] [9] It was the first theater in Los Angeles to be air conditioned. [4]
The Wiltern Theatre is located at the western edge of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Koreatown, at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. The Koreatown district is served by bus and Metro Rail; the Wiltern Theatre sits directly across from the Wilshire/Western Station, currently the westernmost station of the D Line subway.
The theatre's location at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles’ two busiest retail streets of the early 1920s [8] ensured that the theatre was a consistent money maker. [5] At the time of the State Theatre’s opening the theatre’s projection booth was proclaimed to be the largest in the world [ 3 ] and boasted the unique feature of a ...
The Orpheum Theatre at 842 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles opened on February 15, 1926, as the fourth and final Los Angeles venue for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. [3] After a $3 million renovation, started in 1989, it is the most restored of the historical movie palaces in the city.
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.
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 .