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Title: Theater opens
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Miller, Bob
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Caption dated June 18, 1951 reads, "Producer Robert L. Lippert, and owner of the Americana Theater at 8700 Van Nuys Blvd., Panorama City, opened his theater last night and ushered in a new concept in movie-going: it's in a shopping center. Lippert's idea is to give patrons comfort in movie viewing, convenience in parking, and a chance to shop while being entertained."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118042
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d021_f18_i6
CARL0005411224
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52966
Subject: Americana Theater (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Panorama City (Los Angeles)
Marquees--California--Panorama City (Los Angeles)
Motion picture audiences
Streets--California--Panorama City (Los Angeles)
Trucks--California--Los Angeles
Van Nuys Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Panorama City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Night photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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