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Hollywood Theater opened on December 20, 1913, the second to open in Hollywood's emerging theater district. A 700-seat Nickelodeon, [1] it was owned by H.L. Lewis and designed in the Romanesque style by Krempel and Erkes. [2] In 1927, the theater was remodeled by Clifford Balch and in 1936, it was remodeled a second time by S. Charles Lee.
Hollywood's Ritz Theatre, formerly News View Theatre, Newsreel Theatre, Hollywood Newsreel, New View Theatre, Pacific New View, Pussycat Theatre, and briefly Hologram USA Theater, is a historic former newsreel and movie theater located at 6656 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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]
The theater that would become Fox Theater opened as Iris Theatre in 1918, after that theater relocated from 6415 to 6508 Hollywood Boulevard. The new theater, built in the Romanesque style by Frank Meline for P. Tabor , sat 1000 and was the second movie theater on Hollywood Blvd. [ 1 ]
Vine Theatre, formerly Admiral Theatre and Rector’s Admiral Theatre, also known as Vine Street Theatre, Dolby @ Vine, and Dolby Screening Room Hollywood Vine, is a historic movie theater located at 6321 W. Hollywood Boulevard, near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, in Hollywood, California.
Vista Theatre opened on October 9, 1923, [2] as a single-screen theater. In addition to screening films, the theater also showed vaudeville acts on stage. [3] Originally known as Lou Bard Playhouse on opening day in 1923, the cinema played the film Tips starring Baby Peggy. [4] The original seating capacity in the auditorium held space for 838 ...
In 1961, the theater was equipped to show 70 mm film, and in 1968, Stanley Warner sold the theater to Pacific Theatres, who renamed it Hollywood Pacific Theatre. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, two Stanley Kubrick films had long runs at the theater: 2001: A Space Odyssey , which had its west coast premiere here and played for 80 weeks, and A ...
Fox West Coast Theatres operated the theater from July 10, 1945, and the theater was modernized by J. Walter Bantou and J. Arthur Drielsma in July 1959, [2] at a cost of $250,000. [3] In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Vogue Theatre listed in the ...