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They operated the last drive-in in Los Angeles County, the Vineland Drive-In located in the La Puente area. [2] Pacific Theatre also owned the Valley 6 drive-in theatre in Auburn, Washington , which was the last operating drive-in from the United Theatre chain that Pacific ran in the Northwest from the 1950s; it was closed at the end of the ...
Laemmle Theatres (/ ˈ l ɛ m l i / LEM-lee) is a Los Angeles-based arthouse movie theater chain owned and operated by Robert Laemmle and his son Greg. The company's first theater, bought in 1938 [1] by Robert's father Max and uncle Kurt, both cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, was located in Highland Park.
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($45 million in 2024) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after it opened and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($25.6 million in 2024).
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]
This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4] Designed by S. Charles Lee, [5] and Samuel Tilden Norton, the theater features a French Baroque interior.
The Mayan Theater is a prototypical example of the many ornate exotic revival-style theaters of the late 1920s, Mayan Revival in this case. The well-preserved lobby is called "The Hall of Feathered Serpents," the auditorium includes a chandelier based on the Aztec calendar stone , and the original fire curtain included images of Mayan jungles ...
In 1927, the theater was remodeled by Clifford Balch and in 1936, it was remodeled a second time by S. Charles Lee. In the second remodel, the building's original white brick façade was replaced with an art deco version, [ 2 ] and a neon marquee was added, the marquee angled to catch the eye of passing motorists. [ 1 ]