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Title: Marquee, Wilshire Theater
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1986
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 theater was designed by S. Charles Lee and built between 1928-1930. This classic Art Deco structure originally operated under the Fox theater chain and includes a 2,500 seat auditorium, a tower with residential and office space, and commercial space on the ground floor.
View of the marquee and entrance to the Wilshire Theatre located at 8440 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028707
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Theater
CARL0000035504
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8015
Subject: Wilshire Theatre (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Cage aux folles (Motion picture)
Marquees--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture theaters--California--Beverly Hills
Sidewalks--California--Beverly Hills
Pedestrians--California--Beverly Hills
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Lee, S. Charles

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