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Title: Outside Palms Theatre
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: The theater is now the site of the Palms Station Post Office.
Photograph caption dated June 9, 1985 reads, "'When they had 'The Godfather' in the early '70s, the ushers dressed as gangsters and pointed toy plastic machine guns to keep people in line.'" Show is Don Nakagiri, the former manager of the Palms Theatre, background, located at 3751 Motor Avenue. The marquee identifies that "Police Academy 2" and the "Breakfast Club" are being shown at the theater.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028733
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Theater
CARL0000035532
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8047
Subject: Palms Theatre (Palms, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Police Academy 2 (Motion picture)
Breakfast club (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Palms (Los Angeles)
Marquees--California--Palms (Los Angeles)
Men--California--Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--Palms (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Palms (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Neon signs--California--Palms (Los Angeles)
Motor Avenue Los Angeles, Calif.)
Palms (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1981-1990

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