Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin financed the United Artists Theatre/Texaco Building located at 933 S. Broadway, which was completed in 1927 by architects Percy A. Walker & Albert R. Eisen with interior design by C. Howard Crane. The Spanish Gothic style building included an ornate 50-foot high "dummy tower" to circumvent the local height restriction of the time, and all of the offices were leased to the California Petroleum Co. In 1979 Texaco Oil moved operations to Wilshire Blvd. In 1991 the building was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument # 523. Dr. Gene Scott's University Cathedral leased the building until Greenfield Partners bought it in 2011 for conversion to an Ace Hotel. The United Artists Theatre at night, showing a lit marquee, foyer and box office during run of "Taming of the Shrew" with Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks.
United Artists Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.) Taming of the shrew (Motion picture : 1929) Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles Marquees--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Street-railroad tracks--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Night photographs Crane, C. Howard(Charles Howard),1885-1952 Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Walker & Eisen
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