Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library. The library database says that Crenshaw Boulevard was previously called Angeles Mesa Drive. I did not know this.
This is interesting. I don’t see that anyone mentioned a previous incarnation as the Fairfax Theater. If you look at this picture from the LAPL database, the theater takes up about half the block on Fairfax heading up towards Canter’s. If you walk south from Canter’s (today) on the west side of Fairfax, you can see a painted sign advertising an unidentified theater on the side of the building, somewhat below where the free-standing sign is in the picture.
Here is an interesting picture of the Fox, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015709.jpg
Here is an uncropped shot, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015375.jpg
Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015267.jpg
A picture, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015652.jpg
End of the road for the Uptown, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015498.jpg
Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library. The library database says that Crenshaw Boulevard was previously called Angeles Mesa Drive. I did not know this.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015413.jpg
OK, thanks.
This is interesting. I don’t see that anyone mentioned a previous incarnation as the Fairfax Theater. If you look at this picture from the LAPL database, the theater takes up about half the block on Fairfax heading up towards Canter’s. If you walk south from Canter’s (today) on the west side of Fairfax, you can see a painted sign advertising an unidentified theater on the side of the building, somewhat below where the free-standing sign is in the picture.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015285.jpg
One more:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015322.jpg
Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015321.jpg
Here is a picture courtesy of the LA Library. Sometimes you have to know when to say enough…
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015304.jpg
Here is another interesting shot:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015200.jpg
Ken, I enjoyed your comments concerning the Ken.
Ken
I think this sign is still in the alley:
(Courtesy of the LA Library)
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015042.jpg
If you don’t know the answer, here is a better picture:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015018.jpg
The LA Library thinks that this theater was converted into a dry cleaners. Are they correct?
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015017.jpg
Here is a photo from 1918, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015260.jpg
No hat, no ticket…
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015154.jpg
Here are some pictures, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014929.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014933.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014938.jpg
Here is a picture, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015463.jpg
One more, apparently towards the end:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032555.jpg
Here is another exterior shot, from the LAPL database:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032556.jpg
Here is a picture of the Mayan in shabbier days, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028706.jpg
Here is a photo of the Palms, along with theater manager Don Nakagiri, from 1985:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028733.jpg
The end of vaudeville at the Orpheum, 1949, courtesy of the LA Library:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036874.jpg