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Title: Marquee at Hollywood Theatre
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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 Clifford A. Balch in 1919, the theater got a remodel in 1927 and another remodel by S. Charles Lee in 1936 and would have a final remodel in 1977. In the early 1990s, it became a venue for the Guinness Book of World Records.
Exterior view of Hollywood Theatre, located at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard. The marquee indicates that the films "Merrily We Live" and "Romance in the Dark" starring Constance Bennett are playing. The Hollywood Boulevard street car tracks are visible in the foreground.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063858
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Hollywood-Theaters-Hollywood; A-008-931 4x5
CARL0000067822
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108558
Subject: Hollywood Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Romance in the Dark (Motion picture)
Merrily We Live (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Marquees--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Neon signs--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Street-railroad tracks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Night photographs
Balch, Clifford A
Lee, S. Charles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1931-1940
Source: Wanamaker, Marc.

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