Puente Theatre, Puente, rendering
- Description:
- Lee's sketch offers a prototype for a theatre that could be built cheaply and quickly. The simplest means of quickly constructing a theatre-sized space was to build a Quonset hut, a method devised in the late 1930s using small wood members to create an arched truss frame, which was then often clad in metal for warehouse purposes. A number of motion picture theatres were built in this way. They offered inexpensive rapid construction of theatre spaces in small towns such as Puente, an agricultural community east of Los Angeles.
- Date:
- 1947-48
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Collection:
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S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962
