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Title: Carthay Circle Theatre
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: Architect Archibald Gibbs designed the 1926 Carthay Circle Theatre, located at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard, in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style with Streamline Moderne influences. Fox-West Coast Theatres took over operation of the theatre in 1929. The theater was home to many premieres before it closed in 1969. It was demolished in the early 1970s.
The Carthay Circle Theatre located at San Vicente Blvd. and Carillo Ave.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00014955
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (4320); L.A.-Theaters-Carthay Circle
CARL0000003649
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87010
Subject: Carthay Circle Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Carthay (Los Angeles)
Architecture--California--Carthay (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences
Lost architecture--California--Carthay (Los Angeles)
Gibbs, Archibald
Carthay (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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