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Title: Street & Uptown Theatre
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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 Fox Uptown Theatre was located at 1008 So. Western Avenue in Los Angeles and was built in 1925. It ran first-run movies for Fox, seating 1,600 people, and had a large roof-top sign. It was demolished in 1963.
Shows the two sides of the block where Uptown Theatre is located. The sign Uptown hangs on the building on the corner and also over the marquee and entrance which are half a block down on the right side. The rest of the block is the commercial patrons of the building. Above the building is the giant sign Fox Uptown Theatre. Architect: L.A. Smith.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00015495
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-1(260); A-007-115 4x5
CARL0000004174
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/90162
Subject: Fox Uptown Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Lewis A

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