Pacific 1-2-3
6433 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6433 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Robertson Properties Group has been waiting to find a buyer for a long time for the theatre. Robertson Properties Group is the real estate division for Pacific Theatres with Chris Forman as their President and CEO. Everything worked when I last ran the theatre as the closing projectionist before Pacific closed it.
Why isnt this theater listed under its original name (and for that matter, all theaters on this site?) If you didnt live in the area, you wouldnt have a clue on how to find it. It took me forever to find this theater listing. That being said, I hope this theater can be made to come alive again in its original form. Isnt this the last shuttered movie palace on Hollywood Blvd??
See my comments for the last few years.
There is no screen, just a frame. All the speakers and projection equipment have been removed. The seats are all still there both downstairs and in the two upstairs auditoriums (the former balcony). The elevator has been “dead” since 1994.
There’s working A/C in the booth and Jack Warner’s old office but the main A/C is pretty inefficient and there’s no heat in the main hall.
Right now, everything is gathering dust, but if one of two potential tenants comes to agreement with the owners the palace may just get renovated with help from the Hollywood Redevelopment Agency.
On their own, the owners, Robertson Properties Group, will not do anything about the building.
Paul Miller
What is the current status of this theater now that the Digital Cinema Lab has vacated the building??
The American premiere of “How the West Was Won” attracted a spectacular turnout of movie stars. 12 of them were actually in the picture:
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I found a gorgeous photo of the theater in 1937…
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The Picwood was nextstore to the Picwood bowl, with a small bead shop at the corner, not far from an old May Company/mall.
William Haines was the DM for pacific and manager of the Dome,
Along with Don Immenchuh sp?
I worked the picwood in 1977 with Jack Tate for a short span.
The world has become a stage for circus performers, email me at
my regular email address so I can talk with you live.
Diana, The Picwood was Pacific’s house in West Los Angeles at Pico and Westwood Blvds.
The Henry Fonda used to be the Pix, not the World. I worked at the World for two weeks in 1967. Also worked at the Pantages for the entire run of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf.
Hello William, great to read a voice from the old Hollywood past.
I believe that your theatre went back to stage productions and is now called the Henry Fonda. Is it still open?
Hi Diana, I remember you from the Pacific and the World. Because I was over at the Picwood at the time.
Hello, I was one of the managers of the Hollywood Pacific. I
basically grew-up in the theatre. I am surprised that know one has mentioned any of the ghost stories, the theatre made Entertainment
Magazine’s top ten most haunted theatres a few years ago. One of the urban legends is that since Sam Warner died right before the completion of the theatre, the theatre will never stop changing.
One of my dreams and goals is to own the theatre one day and manage it again. If you came into the theatre back in the mid-seventies,
I was probley the cashier who sold you your ticket. I remember
one stormy night, when one the KFWB towers got struck by lightening and my hair stood on end, what an enormous skreeching noise! I also remember going to a Hollywood Chamber meeting
along with other theatre managers asking “What the hell is multi-plex? I have shared some of my pics with the digital people
in there now. I would love to make a movie based on true events,
any sponsors? My name is Diana Marks, But I was also known as
Diana Brennan back then. I also remember having a going away party thrown in the downstairs lobby by some west-end Hollywood Blvd.
managers, because I had to go run the World Theatre, (3 movies for $2.50) back in 1981. A couple of the managers had to peel me off
of one of the beautiful pillars while I was holding tight and crying. Maybe the movie would make the bank for restoring the theatre.
That’s the “Sunshine” version.
The way I heard it, when she was an usher at the Warners in 1947, she wouldn’t let some customers in during the last few minutes of a Hitchcock film. Her boss, the manager, got so upset with her he fired her on the spot and tore the epaulettes off of her uniform.
Since that was the only job she was ever fired from, when she got her “Star” on the Walk of Fame, she had it put right in front of the Warner theater to snub her nose at the place.
BTW – the IRIS is now called the FOX
Thanks.
Carol Burnett was a movie usher in LA when she was in high school. I would be curious to know which theater, if anybody is a fan.
Kristi: Thanks for such a lovely reminiscence. Your post is a fine example of what Cinema Treasures is all about.
It’s so good to know that the Hollywood Pacific survived its boarded up phase!
As a former usherette during the theatre’s transition from Warner to Pacific, I have many fond memories of working there.
Of course, the lobby was by far the most memorable part of the theatre with its wood carved stairways and ornamentation, as well as the elegant chorus line of chandeliers stretching out across the semi-circular lobby ceiling.
Then there was the joyful luxury of having our dressing room just off the lower lobby where we would take our breaks (between showings, of course) sitting in the Louis XV style chairs and other vintage furniture.
I once served popcorn and sodas in the small screening room downstairs for a group of Hollywood VIPs. The film was “Marnie”. After spotting Tippi Hedren there, I furtively looked around in the dark for Sean Connery but I don’t think he was there.
As an aspiring actress/college student, I can’t imagine having had a better job. Some of the perks were getting to dress as a flapper for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and in metallic gold A-line mini dresses for “2001: A Space Odyssey”. We got to meet, greet and seat the Who’s Who of Hollywood since we were a hard ticket house – just like live theatre – and seats were pre-destined for loge, mezzanine or balcony.
There are just too many memories for a short blog entry. But I’m hopeful someone else will find this theatre a proper home for their new endeavor. Either way the Hollywood Pacific will live within me forever as a joyful, inspirational and magical beginning, as a memory that transcends time.
Kristi Koons
The screen at the Hollywood Pacific, site of the Digital Cinema Lab for the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, has gone dark. After 6 years of testing, demonstrations, and industry screenings the Laboratory is closed and will vacate the building by the end of this October.
It has been a wonderful run and I’m proud to have been a part of it since the beginning. In that time we’ve shown over 115 features and independent films, 99% in digital form; over 175 clips and shorts as part of demonstrations and special exhibitions; ands we played host to many diverse conferences and meetings.
There is some talk of the theater being renovated but that’s between the owners and a new lessee.
Goodbye to all who have been our guests,
Paul Miller
From the Los Angeles Times, April 1968. “2001” was about to begin its very long run at the Warner Cinerama:
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Here is an interesting “before” picture, probably from the teens. The home on the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard is the predecessor of the theater:
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Here is a photo of Warners/KFWB from the 1930s, via the LAPL:
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In 1981 saw Maniac ,also Clash Of The Titans, in the main theatre. upstairs For Your Eyes Only, Escape From NY, Halloween 2, Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams w/co fet. Next Movie. I would go alot, living only a couple blocks off the Boulevard.