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The overall design was meant to resemble London's Burlington Arcade. [1] The arcade itself measures 826 by 26 feet and is covered with a glass-roofed skylight. The arcade's entrances are shaped by thin twisted and beaded columns that rise into delicate arches. A Venetian-styled bridge that spans the center of the arcade was a later addition. [13]
The Arcade Theatre is a historic former vaudeville and movie theater in the Broadway district of Los Angeles, California. Commissioned by real estate developer William May Garland in 1910, it originally operated under the direction of Alexander Pantages .
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]
The Los Angeles City Council approved a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with AEG in a 12–0 vote on August 9, 2011. [9] AEG abandoned the project in March 2015, after the three most likely NFL teams all proposed their own stadium plans in the event they were to relocate to Los Angeles.
The Arcade Depot was the main Southern Pacific Railroad passenger railway station of Los Angeles, California between 1888 and 1914. It was located on Alameda Street, between 5th and 6th Streets. This station consolidated intercity services at a location closer to Downtown Los Angeles than the previous terminal, the San Fernando Street Depot.
This addition, the first reinforced concrete building in Los Angeles, [8] was designed by either Harrison Albright [8] or Thornton Fitzhugh. [2] The first post-expansion tenant was the Ville de Paris department store , replaced in 1917 by the Grand Central Market, which still occupies the ground floor of the building.
A retiring Fort Liberty soldier plans to open a tap room with arcade games in February in the former AIT Building in downtown Fayetteville, and a new event space began holding events there in April.
Downtown Los Angeles's Woolworth's building was designed by Weeks and Day and built in 1920. [1] The cost of construction was approximately $100,000 ($1.52 million in 2023) and the building's original tenant was Woolworth's.