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Description
Order Number
00015611
Title
United
Artists
Theater
night
view
Collection ID
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession
L.A.-Theaters-United
Artists
Theatre
Date
1929
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
Historical Data
Mary
Pickford
,
Douglas
Fairbanks
, and
Charlie
Chaplin
financed
the
United
Artists
Theatre/Texaco
Building
located
at
933
S
.
Broadway
,
which
was
completed
in
1927
by
architects
Percy
A.
Walker
&
Albert
R
.
Eisen
with
interior
design
by
C
.
Howard
Crane
. The
Spanish
Gothic
style
building
included
an
ornate
50-foot
high
"
dummy
tower
" to
circumvent
the
local
height
restriction
of the
time
, and
all
of the
offices
were
leased
to the
California
Petroleum
Co
. In
1979
Texaco
Oil
moved
operations
to
Wilshire
Blvd
. In
1991
the
building
was
designated
as
Los
Angeles
Historic-Cultural
Monument
#
523
.
Dr
.
Gene
Scott's
University
Cathedral
leased
the
building
until
Greenfield
Partners
bought
it
in
2011
for
conversion
to an
Ace
Hotel
.
Description
The
United
Artists
Theatre
at
night
,
showing
a
lit
marquee
,
foyer
and
box
office
during
run
of "
Taming
of the
Shrew
" with
Mary
Pickford
and
Doug
Fairbanks
.
Subject
United Artists Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Taming of the shrew (Motion picture : 1929).
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles.
Marquees--California--Los Angeles.
Streets--California--Los Angeles.
Street-railroad tracks--California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences.
Night photographs
Crane, C. Howard(Charles Howard),1885-1952.
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Walker & Eisen.
Coverage
1921
;
1922
;
1923
;
1924
;
1925
;
1926
;
1927
;
1928
;
1929
;
1930
Format
Photographic prints
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
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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