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Title
Main Street businesses, Alhambra
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1928
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
When the theater opened in 1917, it was known as the Alhambra Theatre. In the 1940s, it was renamed the Coronet Theatre and twenty years later, it became the Capri. The entire structure seen here has since been demolished.
Exterior of a commercial building located at 128-136 W. Main Street in Alhambra. Businesses occupying the building, left to right, Granada Beauty Shop, R.G. Field Co. real estate office, the Alhambra Theatre, a Santa Fe ticket office and an eatery. The theater marquee indicates that Mother Machree, starring Belle Bennett, and Hair Trigger Baxter, with Bob Custer, are being shown.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00014405
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Alhambra-Theaters; N-000-512 5x7
CARL0000025025
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/86660
Subject
Capri Theatre (Alhambra, Calif.)
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Motion picture theaters--California--Alhambra
Marquees--California--Alhambra
Stores & shops--California--Alhambra
Beauty shops--California--Alhambra
Restaurants--California--Alhambra
Streets--California--Alhambra
Lost architecture--California--Alhambra
Alhambra (Calif.)

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