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Title
Los Angeles City Downtown ...Corner of 8th Street and Broadway, 1951
The Newsreel Theater (aka The Tower Theater) in Downtown Los Angeles, 1951
Date Created and/or Issued
1951-12
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Los Angeles City Downtown ...Corner of 8th Street and Broadway, December 1951.
Photograph of the Tower Theater, then called the Newsreel Theater (as shown in the picture). It was the first movie palace S. Charles Lee built in Los Angeles. (He later built the Los Angeles Theater in 1931). The street address for the Tower Theater is 802 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint
negatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m7931
EXM-N-9442-006~1
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m7931
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-9442-006~1.jpg
Time Period
1951-12
Place
8th Street & Broadway
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
9442-006 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
examiner-m1663

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