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Title: Beverly Theater tower, exterior view
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mendoza, Javier
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: This Art Deco style movie theater was designed by B. Marcus Priteca and opened in 1931; it was demolished in 1988 and replaced with a parking lot.
Photograph caption reads: "Shattered crystal of the Beverly Theater's tower ... resembles a chunk of Superman's kryptonite". Photograph dated August 17, 1987.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043529
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b063_f6_i18
CARL0000046966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13731
Subject: Warner Bros. Beverly Hills Theatre
Motion picture theaters--California--Beverly Hills
Towers--California--Beverly Hills
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills
Lost architecture--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Priteca, B. Marcus(Bernard Marcus)

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