Uniform title: Tower Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee uses elements of religious architecture, such as the tower, central niche with a statue, the large arched opening and the rows of window along the side of the building, as though to bring as much light into the building as possible, although exactly the opposite was true.
Date:: 1926-27
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

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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