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 Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre in 2007

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 cornice with "Warner Bros" 

 

under balcony

exit detail - WB crest over doors

 

balcony and organ grille area 

 

proscenium  


More sources for information about the Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre... 

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The Warner Bros. Theatre, one of several surviving Los Angeles theaters on Hill Street in a photo from Brittanica.Brittanica Online

 www.brittanica.com   Exterior in the 1920's when it was the Pantages.   

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Theaters in Los Angeles - The Warner Bros. Theatre, one of several surviving Los Angeles movie palaces on Hill Street in a photo from Hollywood 90038 on Photobucket.Hollywood 90038 on Photobucket

photobucket.com...hollywood90038    In Hollywood 90038's Photobucket album is this nice closeup of the dome showing B. Marcus priteca's elaborate design work.    full size view  

 

The Pantages Theatre, later the Warner Bros. Downtown, was typical of the elaborate Los Angeles theatres constructed for movies and vaudeville in the 1920's.I Net Tours

http://www.inetours.com  Another view of the dome on top of the Warner Downtown at 7th and Hill from this site's Downtown L.A. page.   

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Downtown Los Angeles Theaters - The Warner Theatre, formerly the Pantages, in a photo from the Los Angeles Conservancy.Los Angeles Conservancy

www.laconservancy.org    

Here's a great photo of  the auditorium of the Pantages / WarnerTheatre  from the LA Conservancy's wonderful photo gallery of the Broadway Historic Theatre District.    

The photo is from the Conservancy archives.   full size view

 

Los Angeles Theaters Downtown - The Warner Bros. Theatre on Hill Street in a 1938 photo from the website Los Angeles - A World Class City.Los Angeles Movie Palaces

geocities/los angeles/movie palaces   A view of the theatre as the Warner Bros. 

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Hill Street Los Angeles Theatres: The Pantages, later known as the Warner. 

A view of the proscenium boxes in the 1970's from this site's Los Angeles Movie Palaces page.  

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Also on this site:   vertical sign

 

Los Angeles Movie Palaces - The Warner Bros. Theatre, one of several surviving theater buildings on Hill Street in a photo from the Los Angeles Public Library collection.L.A. Public Library Photo Collection

www.lapl.org   

A detail of plasterwork above proscenium boxes from the Library's collection.  

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Los Angeles Theaters - The Warner Bros. Theatre, formerly the Pantages, in a photo from the Los Angeles Public Library collection. 

Proscenium detail.       

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More interiors in the LAPL collection:  another proscenium view  |   plasterwork above proscenium

Exterior views from the LAPL collection:  1925 exterior "Rin Tin Tin"    |  1929 reopening - as the Warner  |    1932 exterior  |  another 1932 exterior - higher angle   |   boxoffice in 1938  |  1938 Hill St. facade  |   looking east on 7th St.  - Warner + LA Athletic Club, Herman Schultheis photo  |


California State library

www.library.ca.gov   From the State of California collection is this 1925 exterior view by Martin Behrman.   

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Movie Palaces Los Angeles - The Warner Bros. Theatre, one of several surviving Los Angeles theaters on Hill Street in a photo from the Brent Dickerson CSULB collection.A Stroll down old Broadway

csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal8a.     

Here's a postcard of the Pantages from a Hill St. Tour created by Brent C. Dickerson as part of his Visit to Old Los Angeles series. The pages on this site are bursting with vintage postcard views of downtown.  

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Warner Theatre, Downtown Los AngelesOnline Archive of California - UCLA Photo Collection

www.oac.cdlib.org    From the UCLA collection is this 1947 exterior shot.   full size view 

 

Los Angeles Movie Palaces - The Warner Bros. Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, in a photo from the USC Archives.USC Archives

digarc.usc.edu  This 1926 exterior is from the USC Archives.  

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Also from USC:  another 1926 exterior 

 

 

Los Angeles Movie Palaces - The Warner Bros. Theatre on Hill Street, in a postcard from the USC Geography department's Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour.USC Downtown Walking Tour

college.usc.edu/...walking_tour

A 1943 postcard of the Warner from the USC Geography site's Jewelry District page.  

full size image  |   the card in Zilf's collection

Maps and photos of many landmark downtown buildings are on the tour.   Start the tour at: LA Walking Tour

 

Los Angeles Theatres: The Pantages, later Warner, on Hill Street.Zilf's Postcards on Flickr 

www.flickr.com/photos/zilf     Zilf has this view looking west on 7th Street with Warner's on the right in his immense Los Angeles postcard collection.  full size view

 

For more information on downtown Los Angeles theaters near the Pantages / Warner Bros.  see the Theaters West of Broadway page and the Broadway Theaters Los Angeles page.

 

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