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Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural
extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of
the productthe biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable.
The magnificent movie palaces along Broadway in downtown Los
Angeles still represent the highest concentration of vintage
theatres in the world. With Hollywood and the movies practically
synonymous, the theatres in the studios neighborhood were
state-of-the-art for showbiz, whether they were designed for film,
vaudeville, or stage productions. From the elegant Orpheum and the
exotic Graumans Chinese to the modest El Rey, this volume
celebrates the architecture and social history of Los Angeless
unique collection of historic theatres past and present. The common
threads that connect them all, from the grandest movie palace to
the smallest neighborhood theatre, are stories and the ghosts of
audiences past waiting in the dark for the show to begin.
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Westwood (Hardcover)
Marc Wanamaker
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Griffith Park (Hardcover)
E. J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker
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Malibu (Hardcover)
Ben Marcus, Marc Wanamaker
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“Los Angeles is a city that runs from its own past” explains
historian and Bison Archives owner Marc Wanamaker.Many of
Hollywood’s legendary sets and props, mansions, theaters,
restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, and even the studios and the films
they produced are now either gone or have been redeveloped,
repurposed, or remade beyond recognition. Even more disarmingly,
the physical ephemera associated with such items is often MIA as
well. Photographs, files, maps, documents, menus, production
paperwork, records, manuscripts, everything from matchbooks to
movie magazines and entire movie backlots have now been lost in the
backwash of dubious progress, short-sighted corporate mindsets, and
civic indifference. Fortunately, for the last fifty years, in the
very epicenter of Hollywood, thanks to Wanamaker, there has existed
a haven where over 70,000 of these items, physically or
photographically, have been collected and protected. These
artifacts tell the story of Hollywood’s glorious past, as well as
its uncertain future as the hub of filmmaking in America.
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