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Raymond Theatre (formerly Perkins Palace) is an auditorium located in Pasadena, California, built around 1921. [1] It was known as Perkins Palace when it was a live music venue from 1979 through 1991. [2] In addition to being a popular music venue, it was featured in several films and music videos during the 1980s.
The Rialto was designed in 1925 by Lewis Arthur Smith, who designed the Vista Theater. [4] The Rialto's architectural style was described in The Los Angeles Times as "an odd mashup of Spanish Baroque and Egyptian kitsch." [3] The theater has an orchestra pit and its original design featured balcony seating along both sides of a deep stage. [5]
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.
The Alexander officially opened its doors on September 4, 1925. It was operated by the West Coast-Langley Theatre Circuit and featured vaudeville performances, plays and silent movies on a single screen [10].It was named after Alexander Langley, the son of Claude L. Langley, owner of the West Coast chain that included the Raymond Theater in Pasadena, and the Orange Theatre in the city of Orange.
Pasadena Playhouse is a Tony Award-winning historic performing arts venue located 39 S. El Molino Avenue in Pasadena, California. The 686-seat auditorium produces a variety of cultural and artistic events, professional shows, and community engagements each year.
The 3,029-seat theater hosts musicals, operas and concerts, among other events, on its 56 by 42 ft (17 by 13 m) stage. The venue's theatre organ was acquired in 1979, having been commissioned from American firm M. P. Möller in 1938 as a touring organ by Englishman Reginald Foort, who attended its Pasadena inauguration on April 23, 1980. [2]
ArcLight Cinemas was an American movie theater chain that operated from 2002 to 2021. It was owned by The Decurion Corporation , which was also the parent company of Pacific Theatres . The ArcLight chain opened in 2002 as a single theater, the ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood, Los Angeles , and later expanded to eleven locations in California ...
The drive-in was replaced by the Hastings Theater, which opened in 1968. The theater was a part of the Pacific Theatres chain, until it closed in 2008. Mann Theatres opened a competing three-screen movie theater in Hastings Ranch in March, 1975 (premiering with The Towering Inferno), which closed in 2002.