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Title
Grauman's Chinese getting painted
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Morris & Associates
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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
Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened in May 18, 1927, after a construction period of 18 months. The principal architect of the theater was Raymond M. Kennedy of the firm Meyer and Holler. Built to resemble a giant, red Chinese pagoda, the architecture features a huge Chinese dragon across the front, two stone lion-dogs guarding the main entrance, and the silhouettes of tiny dragons up and down the sides of the copper roof. Among the theater's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the courtyard that bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day. In 1968 the theater was declared a historic and cultural landmark and from 1973 through 2001, the theatre was known as Mann's Chinese Theatre. In 2002, it was decided that its original name would be reinstated.
Workers are shown painting the building and marquee of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, on November 8, 1950.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028677
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1855
CARL0000035475
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7991
Subject
Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Chinese influences
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Meyer & Holler

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