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Title: RKO Theatre
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1937
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: It was originally built by the Orpheum Circuit and opened in 1922. It reopened as the RKO Theatre in 1929 but popular usage of its earlier name led to it being renamed the RKO Hillstreet Theatre. It closed in 1963 and was demolished in 1965. In its place sits a bank branch and a parking lot. The original architect was G. Albert Lansburgh.
Exterior view of the RKO Hillstreet Theatre on 8th and Hill streets. The marquee read,s " "Latest sensational Marchof Time - Nazi Germany" and the movie "I'll Take Romance."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00015881
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (4309); L.A.-Theaters-RKO.
CARL0000004459
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90344
Subject: RKO Hillstreet Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Lansburgh, G. Albert,1876-1969
Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Eighth Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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