Title supplied by cataloger.; Verso reads: "One of the 'cheap' motion picture theaters that Kitchen speaks of. Sid Grauman is now erecting a $500,000 motion picture theater and Oliver Morosco is now building a large playhouse for 'legitimate' plays. The Hollywood Community Theater which has been running for 5 years has been written up by most of the national theatrical magazines as one of the most unique of its sort. Of course Kitchen & the N.Y. World never heard of it." Front view of Hunley's Theater, located at 5115 Hollywood Boulevard and Normandie. The 750-seat, single screen theater was designed by Meyer and Holler, and was erected by the Milwaukee Building Company in 1921-1922; it boasted of a Robert-Morgan organ, which was installed in 1921. The original owner of this theater was Otis Hunley, and the Hunley presented mainstream fare for many years. Eventually this theater became known as the Century Theater, and in the 1970s and 1980s, it began presenting male adult films. It is said that the theater burned down as a result of the riots in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts in the early 1990s.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;13 x 18 cm. Photographic prints
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