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Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS) 2: 52nd Place Historic District: 52nd Place Historic District: June 11, 2009 : Along E. 52nd Place [6
The Saban Theatre (/ s ə ˈ b ɑː n / sə-BAHN) is a historic theatre in Beverly Hills, California, formerly known as the Fox Wilshire Theater. [2] It is an Art Deco structure at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hamilton Drive designed by architect S. Charles Lee and is considered a classic Los Angeles landmark.
The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway , it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
John Weber (1932–2008): Weber was born in 1932 in Los Angeles. He was a radio corpsman in the Navy during the Korean War before receiving a bachelor's degree from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1958. As a contemporary art dealer, Weber was ahead of his time as he was one of the early promoters of Conceptual Art, Post-Minimalist ...
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. The list includes Hollywood, as well as Griffith Park and the communities of Los Feliz and Little Armenia. There are more than 148 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in this area. They are designated by the city's Cultural Heritage ...
A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It was first mentioned in Plato 's Republic , in the story, "Allegory of a Cave" (c. 375 BCE), but its most intense use began in Renaissance theatre , as a result of the work of important theatrical ...
In 1991, the building was sold to Mayer Separzadeh, who converted the theater into a swap meet. To protect the building from drastic changes, the building was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in September 1991. [5] The theater was purchased by the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles in 2008. [6]
The exterior and marquee of the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles, taken in August 2012. The Velaslavasay Panorama is an exhibition hall, theatre and gardens in Los Angeles, California, featuring the only painted, 360-degree panorama created in the United States since the nineteenth century.