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The Downtown Independent (formerly the ImaginAsian Center) was a one screen theater and cinema located at 251 S. Main Street in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was operated by the Downtown Independent and owned by Orange County , California's Cinema Properties Group.
The predominant venues that host these events are The Vintage Vista Theater, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, and the Cinefamily theater (before it was shut down). Specific clubs will operate out of other venues like the Zebulon Cafe Concert, The Downtown Independent, Aero Theater, Los Feliz 3, Egyptian Theatre, and Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum ...
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.
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
The Microsoft-branded theater in downtown Los Angeles will be no more: The L.A. Live venue owned by AEG will be renamed the Peacock Theater.
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 ]
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.
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 ...