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Title
Pacific Cinerama Theatre, Hollywood, looking northwest
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1963
Publication Information
Welton Becket and Associates.; Kelly-Holiday
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Pacific Theaters' Cinerama Dome, located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, was designed to present widescreen Cinerama films and was originally developed by Saul Pick. It was adapted by the noted architectural firm of Welton Becket and Associates and opened on November 2, 1963 with the press premiere of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Built in only 16 weeks, the domed roof is comprised of 316 pre-cast concrete panels, most of which are hexagonal, and each weighing approximately 3,200 lbs., with a wide screen measuring 32 x 86 feet. The Cinerama Dome, the first and only theater of its kind in the world, has been host to over four decades of premieres and blockbusters; it was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument on December 18, 1998.
Aerial view of a Pacific Drive-In Theater property construction site, and the future home of Pacific Cinerama Theatre, located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood; view is looking northwest. Vine St. is diagonally at bottom right corner; Ivar Ave. is diagonally at center; Cahuenga Blvd. is parallels it on the left; Wilcox Ave. is diagonally farther up; Sunset Blvd. is diagonally, middle right to upper left; De Longpre Ave. is diagonally, bottom left to middle left. Photograph dated August 5, 1963.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00103605
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 599-8
CARL0005174498
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5573
Subject
Pacific Theaters' Cinerama Dome (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Building construction--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Domes--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aerial photographs

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