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Title
Closed Uptown Theatre
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
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 Fox Uptown Theatre was located at 1008 So. Western Avenue in Los Angeles and was built in 1925. It ran first-run movies for Fox, seating 1,600 people, and had a large roof-top sign. It was demolished in 1963.
Exterior of the closed building, with an optometrist sight on the corner of the building, and to the left of it the blank marquee for the Uptown Theatre. A sign from Cleveland Wrecking Company is attached to the corner of the building. L.A. SMith, architect of the Uptown Theatre.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00015498
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Theaters-Uptown Theater.; 1(263)
CARL0000004172
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90166
Subject
Fox Uptown Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Lewis A

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