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The façade of the legendary Alhambra Theater at 1100 Alhambra Blvd. is captured in this 1947 photograph. The venue was designed to emulate the grandeur of Islam’s Alhambra, located in Granada, Spain. The movie house was accented with a garden populated with ornate fountains and an assortment of semitropical plants and trees. The architects responsible for the design were Leonard Starks and Edward Flanders, who also designed the Fox Senator Theater and the iconic Elks Temple. So beloved was the theater that soon after its opening, 31st Street was renamed Alhambra Boulevard. The theater was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, three years prior to its razing.
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