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Opening night at the newly completed Shrine Auditorium on January 23, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Opening night at the newly completed Shrine Auditorium on January 23, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: January 23, 1926
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2250
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Shrine Auditorium was designed in the Moorish Revival style by San Francisco-based theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, with local architects John C. Austin and A. M. Edelman associated. When built, the auditorium could hold 1,200 people on stage and seat an audience of 6,442.
Crowd gathered outside the newly completed Shrine Auditorium on opening night
Text from negative sleeve: Shrine Auditorium
Handwritten on negative: Crowd - Shrine Auditorium, 1/23/26
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3073
ark:/21198/zz002cmm92
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Culture
Landmarks
Moorish Revival
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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