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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:: Pilgrimage Play Amphitheater was built specifically for Christine Wetherill Stevenson's Pilgrimage Play. The original theater burned down in 1929 and this concrete design was built in 1931. The theater was renamed John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in 1978 in honor of the Los Angeles County Supervisor who served from 1934-1958.
Date:: February 21, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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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