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Title
Exterior view of the Egyptian Theatre
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1926
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
Meyer & Holler designed the Egyptian Theatre (6708 Hollywood Blvd.) in 1921. The first of the "fantasy" movie palaces on Hollywood Blvd., the Egyptian retains the forecourt with original Egyptian-style paintings. The marquee was altered in the 1950s. The theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributor to the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District in 1985, and in 2000 was restored and renovated by architects Hodgetts+Fung Design Associates, Inc. as home to the American Cinematheque.
View of an FBO comedy being filmed on location outside the Egyptian Theatre. Above the theater's entrance a sign reads, "The Big Parade Now Playing."
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00063852
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Hollywood-Theaters-Grauman's Egyptian.; A-008-977 4x5
CARL0000067834
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108563
Subject
Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Big Parade (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Egyptian revival (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Actors--United States
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Meyer & Holler

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