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Title: Exterior, Quinn's Rialto
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Creator: Watts
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
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: Exterior view of Quinn’s Rialto Theatre, shortly before its May 21, 1917, opening with “The Garden of Allah.” The Alfred L. Holt picture framing business occupies one of the storefronts. Originally designed by architect Oliver P. Dennis, the exterior of the theatre was redesigned 1919 by William Lee Woollett when it briefly became known as Grauman’s Rialto. Operating for decades as just the Rialto, the theatre was shuttered in 1987 and converted into an Urban Outfitters retail location in 2013.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00015439
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-1(285) 4x5
CARL0000004536
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90416
Subject: Rialto Theater (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Woollett, William Lee
Automobiles
Streets
Shops & stores
Storefronts
Lampposts
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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