Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Theaters--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: "Grand Theatre" curtain, detail of right medallion, showing the initials F and H in a heart. This might refer to the theater that opened as Childs' Opera House (110 S. Main St.) built by the entrepreneur Ozro W. Childs in 1884.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Inscription on curtain: I chatter, as I flow / to join the brimming river. / For men may come and men nay go / but I go on for ever. / Tennyson.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View down Broadway from a building at the SW corner of the intersection with 7th Street. Visible on the right are signs for the Boos Brothers Cafeteria, the Palace Theater, Schabe's, and Desmond's. Flags are suspended from cables over the intersection, including four United States flags and one flag for Cuba. A banner reads "Visit Your / Harbor / Feb. 22nd / Harbor Day / Trade / Week / Feb. 16-22." The intersection is packed with pedestrians and an electric railroad car is visible.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Entrance to the Majestic Theatre at 845 South Broadway. Two signs flanking the entrance read: Majestic / Now Playing / Wilkes Stick Co. / The County Cousin / with Evelyn Warden and Edward Everett Horton." Two other signs read "Wilke Stock Co. / Matinees / Wednesday and Saturday / Popular / Prices / 25 and 50 [cents]"
Date:: circa 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Eunice Pringle showing an abrasion on her arm received when attacked by Alexander Pantages. A similar photograph appears in "PRINGLE GIRL WITNESS TODAY: Asserted Attack by Pantages Will Be Described Jury Selected After Two Day Legal Battle Court May Visit Theater to View Offices," Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct. 1929: A1.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Theatrical entrepreneur Alexander Pantages lying in a jail hospital bed.
Date:: January 31, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of The California Theatre in Los Angeles at 810 S. Main Street (Main and 8th Street). On the outside display banner, it reads the name of the actress "Norma Talmadge." People walk past the theatre. The theatre opened in 1918 and closed down in January 1988.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eunice Pringle with her parents Dr. Lewis A. Pringle (left) and Irene Pringle (right) in the courtroom during the Alexander Pantages trial.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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