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Rialto Theatre

2001 Photo from the Bob Meza collection

812 S Broadway
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles) CA 90014

	Record #12319
Opened: 1917 Closed: 1988 Current Use: Retail Demolished:	Capacity: 840 seats Architect(s): Oliver P Dennis Architectural Style(s): National Register: Current Organ: none
Also Known As: Quinns Rialto
Previously operated by: Metropolitan Theatres

The original design of the Rialto by Oliver P. Dennis in 1917 was in the Colonial style. In 1919, Sid Grauman assumed operation of the theater, and in 1923 hired William L. Woollett to redesign the interior. The exterior received a radical remodel at this time, removing all traces of the original facade in favor of a more restrained Beaux Arts style. This renovation also placed Neo-classical ornamentation at the roofline, but a later remodel removed this.

The neon marquee, added in the 1930s, is one of Broadway's longest and most spectacular.

The theater was fitted for Cinemascope in 1954. It was gutted in the 1970s for seismic problems and converted to retail use in the 1980s. Virtually no historic interior elements remain, and the marquee is the only part of the building considered to be a Los Angeles Historic Monument.

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2003 photos from the Adam Martin collection.

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Last featured 8/19/2003. Last edited 7/31/2009.


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