Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A slightly raised view of two long lines of automobiles waiting to get in to the first drive-in theater in Los Angeles at 10860 West Pico. There is a ticket booth in the bottom right corner, and two young men dressed in white speaking to the drivers of the automobiles at the front of the lines. Across the street there is a grocery store called "Green Spray Market".
photCL Whitt 0867 ; Whitt neg. 1504
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Rows of automobiles are parked at an unidentified drive-in movie theater. The automobiles are parked in rows facing the screen, which has six searchlights illuminated behind it.
photCL Whitt 3112
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A panoramic view of a field in Westwood, Los Angeles. The field is planted with widely spaced, low growing plants. An adjacent road on the left is lined with electricity or telephone poles. A note written in white in the bottom left corner reads "Pierce 8030".
photCL 470 (009)
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Image of a drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles, California, with a woman standing on the corner at the intersection of West Pico Boulevard and Westwood Boulevard. The writing on the drive-in signs read "Drive-in theatre sit in your car see and hear talking pictures on the world's largest screen - California's first" "turn all lights out here" and "drive-in theater admission prices adults $.35 per person."
photCL_555_06_1624
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A group of men spread asphalt from the back of a truck onto Riverside Drive in Los Angeles(?). The workmen have pitchforks, shovels and rakes, and there is a steamroller on the left. The house along the street behind them is under construction as well.
PhotCL Whitt 1983 ; Whitt neg. 0887
Image not available
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: a selection of clips on the history, operation or restoration of classic theaters in Los Angeles. Notable items: small theater "programme," 7/1910, "Olympic Theatre - Main St. between 4th & 6th" ; booklet, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphony Magazine, 3/1962 ; tear sheet, Westways, 7/1961, "Theaters under the stars" ; reprint from Southern California Quarterly, 9/1965, "Requiem for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium" ; tear sheet, LAT?, 1967?, "Movie theaters seemed like palaces back in 1917" ; clip, Downtown News, 12/2/1985, "Some old Playbills, a few gags, the B&Ws" ; LAT reprint, from 5/14/1981 edition, "Theater in Los Angeles...the roots run deep" ; gold folder w/ sunburst on cover, contains promotional material and news clips on the refurbishment of the Mayan Theater and adjacent entertainment venues, 1991.
mssLAT