Pantages Theatre (aka RKO Pantages Theatre)

6233 Hollywood Blvd. / Los Angeles

Name: Warner Bro. Downtown Theatre

Alternate Name: Pantages Downtown Theatre Jewelry Center
Address: 401-421 W. 7th ST, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Alternate Address: 655 S. Hill ST
Construction: 1919-1920
Architect: B. Marcus Priteca
Builder: Earl B. Newcomb

Pantages Theatre at the time of its opening in 1920.
(Portrait Insets: Left, Alexander Pantages, President and General Manager of the Company;
Right, Edward G. Milne, Northwest General Manager.)

Caption in the original:

New Pantages Theater, Los Angeles

"The Newest and Most Beautiful Unit of the Long Chain of Fine Theaters Operated by the Pantages Theater Company Will Be Opened in Los Angeles Next Monday.
Inserts, Left, Alexander Pantages, President and General Manager of the Company; Right, Edward G. Milne, Northwest General Manager.
This Million Dollar building Was Designed by B. Marcus Priteca of Seattle, Who Was Architect fot the Pantages Theater in This City [Seattle].
Carl Walker Will Be Local Manager of the New Theater, and James Townsend Will Be Stage Manager. The Pantages Theater Company Will Open New Houses in Toronto,
Salt Lake, Memphis and Kansas City This Fall."

Date: August 14, 1920
Source: The Argus (Seattle), August 14, 1920, p. 5. Photographed from a copy at the Seattle Public Library and very slightly cleaned with GIMP.
Author: No photographer credited

(postcard at left: Emphemera)

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