Tower Theatre, Compton, lounge, entry

Item Overview
- Title
- Tower Theatre, Compton, lounge, entry
- Uniform title
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Tower Theatre (Compton, Calif.)
Tower Bowl (San Diego, Calif.) - Architect
- Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
- Date Created
- 1935-36
- Collection
- S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Notes
- Description
- Designed for a working class community in Los Angeles, the Tower Theater is a modest design which presents a stylish black and white Deco exterior (62701). The night view shows the effective use of neon and spotlighting to illuminate the fluted Moderne tower (62702). The box office is surrounded by circles of light bulbs on the lobby ceiling and a sunburst design on the lobbyýs terrazzo floor (62703). Poster cases are framed by scrolled pediments and simulated columns. The interior uses exaggerated columns, mirrors, white traditional-style furniture, and gilt to suggest a palatial elegance that is distant from the lives of the theatreýs clientele (62704-62705). Hanging lanterns and striped upholstery in the auditorium impart a subdued elegance (62706-62707).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic print
Keywords
- Genre
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Black-and-white photographs
Architectural photographs - Subjects
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Lifestyle
motion picture theaters
Landmarks - Longitude
- 33.8963388
- Latitude
- -118.207995
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
- 0062705
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027fkcq
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted