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Title
Wilshire Theatre, Beverly Hills
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1981
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 S. Charles Lee and built between 1928-1930, the theater, located at 8440 Wilshire in Beverly Hills, originally operated under the Fox theater chain. It includes a 2,500 seat auditorium, a tower with residential and office space, and commercial space on the ground floor.
Looking across Wilshire Boulevard towards the Wilshire Theatre.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028683
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Theater
CARL0000035482
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8002
Subject
Wilshire Theatre (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Beverly Hills
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills
Commercial buildings--California--Beverly Hills
Streets--California--Beverly Hills
Automobiles--California--Beverly Hills
Office buildings--California--Beverly Hills
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Lee, S. Charles

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