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Title: Jewel Theatre in Tujunga
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1929
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: Originally opened as the Tujunga Valley Theatre around 1922, the theater was remodeled in 1925 and renamed the Jewel Theatre with 280 seats. The structure has since been demolished.
Photograph depicts the Jewel Theatre, a nickelodeon, located at Sunset Boulevard (later Commerce Avenue) at Greeley Street in Tujunga. The marquee list the current movie playing, "Rex the unconquerable wild horse in black cyclone" and the theatre walls also have two movie posters for, "Reginald Denny 'I'll Show You The Town'" and "Rex-The Wild Horse 'Black Cyclone'". Photograph date stamped February 7, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00032407
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d041_f33_i10
CARL0000034473
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41475
Subject: Jewel Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters
Marquees
Streets
Posters
Lost architecture
Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1920-1929

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