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Title: Marquee at night, Hollywood Theatre
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: Designed by Clifford A. Balch in 1919, the theater got a remodel in 1927 and another remodel by S. Charles Lee in 1936 and would stay like that till its final remodel in 1977. In the early 1990s, it became a venue for the Guinness Book of World Records.
Marquee at night features films "Merrily We Live" and "Romance in the Dark". Businesses are seen on each side of the theater.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00014704
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-2 (103) 4x5
CARL0000004008
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87025
Subject: Hollywood Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Romance in the Dark (Motion picture)
Merrily We Live (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Marquees--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Neon signs--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Night photographs
Balch, Clifford A
Lee, S. Charles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1931-1940

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