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Title: Exterior of Uptown Theatre & street
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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: The Fox Uptown Theatre was located at 1008 So. Western Avenue in Los Angeles and was built in 1925. It ran first-run movies for Fox, seating 1,600 people, and had a large roof-top sign. It was demolished in 1963.
Looking down the street with a building on the right carrying a sign "Dresses, coats, hats" and beyond it the Uptown Theatre with the marquee advertising Blaine & O'Keefe, "Doll Face" and "The Hidden Eye." The roof of the theater has a giant sign declaring Fox Uptown Theatre. Architect: L.A. Smith.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00015494
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Theaters-Uptown Theater.; 1(258)
CARL0000004173
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90161
Subject: Fox Uptown Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Lewis A

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