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Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 4, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 5, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction detail

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 15, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction detail

Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction, pouring concrete

Description:
A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:
October 5, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Drive-in theatre, Arcadia, construction, pouring concrete

Evans Products Co., exterior view from Southeast

Description:
Typed note on photo: From the southeast all of the main office building is a one-story wing providing garage space for several cars. Narrow horizontal windows break the otherwise smooth plywood wall of the wing. Story-and-a-half glass section (center) lights broad stairway from the lower level office section to residential suites on second floor. Landscaping is to follow detailed suggestions of the architect.
Date:
1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers, 1925-1970
Evans Products Co., exterior view from Southeast

Follies Theatre, lobby entrance

Description:
The Lee collection contains a number of photographs of theatres that Lee was charged with remodeling. This series of photos of a turn-of-the-century vaudeville theatre illustrates by contrast the innovations developed by architects for motion picture theatres. The entry to these older theatres was often off the street, through a long hallway. Advertising displays were merely cardboard signs.
Date:
[between 1930-1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Follies Theatre, lobby entrance

Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, auditorium

Description:
The auditorium is a so-called atmosphere theatre, a popular design type which created a stage set surrounding the audience. In this example, the auditorium simulates a Spanish Colonial Revival village into which the audience enters to see the show. Simulated buildings project from the walls, ivy hangs from their balconies and windows, trees painted on the wall behind provide a natural setting, and the whole is illuminated to create a realistic effect. Above is the dark sky, painted with clouds and featuring twinkling lights simulating the stars.
Date:
1929-1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Luckhaus Studio
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, auditorium

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, auditorium, proscenium

Description:
The Beaux Arts style interior features a proscenium arch framed by pseudo quoins and flanked by giant compositions of paired columns centered by oversize sculptures and cartouches. There is clearly a stage behind the curtain and the organ used to accompany silent motion pictures is seen at the lower left. The perforated panel in the center of the ceiling is a ventilation vent.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Haight, George D.
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Fox Theatre, Long Beach, auditorium, proscenium

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, facade

Description:
Lee designed an elegant Beaux Arts style theatre to be used both for legitimate stage shows and motion pictures for the Southern California beach city, Long Beach. The massive poured-concrete building with its monumental cornice centered by a giant cartouche dominated the urban landscape of downtown Long Beach. The retail shop fronts at street level give a sense of the scale of the building.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Haight, George D.
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Fox Theatre, Long Beach, facade

Fox Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona, auditorium, proscenium

Description:
The walls and ceiling are decorated with swirling Art Deco and Zig-Zag motifs, accented by a pair of leaping mythical gazelles above the proscenium. Above them a gilded sunburst spreads out over the ceiling, an ornament incorporating the air intake grille of the ventilation system. The fire curtain displays an abstracted version of the Arizona desert landscape. Gilded grilles echoing the design of the box office and topped by sunbursts flank the proscenium above the front exits. The theatre organ to accompany silent motion pictures is at the front of the auditorium.
Date:
1930-31
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Woodcock, W.P.
Collection:
S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
Fox Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona, auditorium, proscenium