As the name suggested, the Newsreel Theatre showed newsreels.Ī Vitaphone speaker system was installed in 1927.
THE TOWER THEATRE MOVIE
The Tower showed its last movie in 1988 this venue has been used periodically since 1988 as a set for motion pictures.Įrected on the site of the demolished Garrick Theatre, the Tower Theatre was known as the Music Hall in the mid-1940s and the Newsreel in the 1950s, up until 10/1965. Campbell served as the original building contractor for the Tower his contract stipulated that he finish the building within a six-month time-span. Heinsbergen, executed murals for the interior of the Tower Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. The Dutch-born, Southern California artist, Anthony (Antoon) B. to use an overhead air-conditioning system, following the example made by the Palmer Theatre in New York, NY. According to Gumbiner, the Tower was one of the earliest theatres in the U.S. Herman Louis Gumbiner (-), head of Gumbiner Theatrical Enterprises, owned the Tower and the later Los Angeles Theatre (1931) in Downtown Los Angeles. Charles Lee, a noted architect of movie theatres.
Seating 906 people, the Tower Theatre opened, an early work in the career of S. On either side of the Tower Theatre, stood several other movie theatres of the 1910s and 1920s, including the Morosco, Pantages, Quinn's Rialto, and many others.
Charles Lee (1899-1990), who would go on to become a leading specialist in movie palace design, the Tower Theatre stood on the southeast corner of Broadway and 8th Street, part of Los Angeles's bustling central business district. Southeast corner of South Broadway and West 8th Street ĭesigned by architect S.
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