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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 ...
Schulte United Building, also known as Broadway Arts Tower [2] and Broadway Interiors, [1] is a historic five-story building located at 529 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
Broadway Leasehold Building, also known as L.L. Burns Western Costume Building, [2] Sparkle Building [3] or Sparkle Factory, [4] is a historic seven-story building located at 908-910 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
In 1883, the Los Angeles school board purchased land fronting both Broadway and Spring Street, mid-block between Fifth and Sixth streets, for $12,500 ($408,750 in 2023). Spring Street School was then built on the land. [3] [4] In 1904, the school board put the land up for lease but retained the material in the schoolhouse. [5] C.
Judson-Rives Building, originally the Broadway Central Building, [3] was designed by Charles Ronald Aldrich and built in 1906. [2]In 1928, Judson Rives took over ownership of the building, at which point the building was renamed after him. [3]
Lerners Building was designed by Philip Barker and built in 1931. It originally housed the women's apparel store Lerner’s. [2]In 1944, Grayson’s department store moved into the building and installed a Moderne façade that concealed the original surface and windows.
Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District stretches for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets along South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, and contains twelve movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931. In 1986, Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith called the district "the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America." [4]
Yorkshire Hotel was designed by Parkinson and Bergstrom, the architectural duo responsible for many buildings on Broadway, including Bullock's Building, Trustee Building, Metropolitan Building, and Broadway Mart Center. [1] Completed in 1909, the building was originally a hotel and cafeteria, [3] and was converted to housing and retail in 1972 ...