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Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee's rendering for the Vogue Theatre,Vogue Market and Vogue Beauty Shop was executed almost precisely as initially conceived. The elaborate decorations on the tower are in the spirit of Art Deco, but the executed decorations are of a more traditional character. The interior spaces are more streamlined than the exterior design suggests. Both the name "Vogue" and the details of the interior suggest an elegant experience to the moviegoers of Southgate, an industrial working-class suburb of Los Angeles.
Date:: 1937-38
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee's rendering of this small-town theatre on a corner site in Visalia shows a simple Streamline Moderne two-story building with glass block, tile, curved glass windows and butt-jointed glass box office windows. The flat marquee shows recessed downlights, almost the only feature retained in the final design.
Date:: 1946-49
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This night view is a simplified design for a one-story building, retaining the downlighting in the lobby area, but eliminating the curved Streamline effects of the daytime view. Here the sign at the corner becomes the principal element of the design. Lee uses a series of recessed frames highlighted by indirect lighting, around the entire entrance, the poster cases, the false windows on the façade, and above the box office as a unifying motif.
Date:: 1946-49
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: One of Leeýs few realized "theme" theatres (as in "theme" restaurant), the Tumbleweed recreates for recent immigrants to Los Angeles the farmstead of the Great Plains. Built on a large site in the rural suburb of El Monte, the theatreýs auditorium takes the form of a Midwestern barn, with buttress-like dormers. To attract attention to the theatre, Lee used the form of the Plains windmill, a feature used at every farm to pump water from an underground well. Note on reverse: "Architectýs original conceptionýNote how closely the finished building matches the rendering."
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This rendering of the Tower Theatre, Leeýs first theatre design, shows how effectively he was able to use the narrow lot crowded on both sides by taller buildings. The tower located at the corner advertised the theatre to the public.
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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