Date of opening: October 12, 1927

Date of Closing: 1988

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Going to the movies has become not only a regular past-time but also in some occurences, a holiday tradition. With the film & entertainment industry being one of America’s largest economic incomes, it’s hard to remember a time when there wasn’t movie stars, theatres, and hollywood productions.

The Tower opened October of 1927, and was designed by S. Charles Lee in French Renissance style. The auditorium seated 906 people and had one screen, it was one of Los Angele’s first theatres to be wired for sound films.

After the arival of larger movie cinemas and new technology, theatres such as the tower bcame outdated and buisness became slow. In 1988 it was shutdown and closed, left to rot in abdondoment. In 2008, to keep up with it’s hollywood neighboors, owners opened it to concert venues and filming locations.

Interesting facts:

Films such as: The Omega man (1971), The Mambo kings (1992), Last Action Hero (1993), Fight club (1999), and coyote Ugly (2000), were filmed on the premises.

The theatre was the first in Los Angeles to be air conditioned.

For a while during the early 1950s, the name was changed to the Newsreel Theatre.

The theatre was marked an historic Landmark by the state of California.

Over the years, its lobby has been leased to various vendors, and the auditorium has been used by the Living Faith Evangelical Church.

More information:

http://www.towertheaterla.com/

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/3/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Theatre_(Los_Angeles)