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Order Number
00081640
Title
Look
up
!
Hollywood
Pantages
Theater
Photographer
McCulloh, Douglas.
Collection ID
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection
Location/Accession
GPC_b4_f2_i17
Date
Circa
200-
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;24
x
36
cm
. on
sheet
26
x
38
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Description
Photographer's
caption
reads
, "The
exotic
,
neo-classical
ceiling
of the
Hollywood
Pantages
Theater
never
fell
in on
Alexander
Pantages
, but
it
might
as
well
have. The
theater
impresario
broke
ground
on the
grand
theater
months
before
the
1929
market
crash
. Then, as the
stock
market
melted
down
,
Pantages
was
arrested
.
Seventeen-year-old
chorus
girl
Eunice
Pringle
claimed
she was
raped
by
Pantages
in the
broom
closet
of his
downtown
L.A
.
theater
.
Pantages
was
convicted
and
sentenced
to
fifty
years
in
prison
. The
conviction
was
overturned
on
appeal
, but the
scandal
and the
legal
costs
ruined
Pantages
. On the
Hollywood
theater's
opening
day
,
June
4
,
1930
, the
Pantages
empire
was
already
piraling
into
oblivion
. By
year's
end
,
Pantages
was
forced
to
sell
his
theatre
chain
-
at
pennies
on the
dollar
-
to
Joseph
Kennedy's
RKO
Pictures.
"
Subject
Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.).
Ceilings--California--Los Angeles.
Theaters--Decoration--California--Los Angeles.
Architecture--Details.
Theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles).
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles).
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format
Photographic prints
Credits
Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection
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