This tour is currently sold out through May but they are making special room for us. Read the AAA piece on it here.Details:
Tour: Broadway Historic Theatre District
Date: Saturday, 02/23/08
Start Time: 10 AM
Length of Tour: 2-3/4 hours
Meeting location: Tour meets at the Million Dollar Theatre, 307 S. Broadway at Third Street.
Parking: There are public parking lots one block west on Hill Street between Third and Fourth Streets.
The tour is sponsored by the LA Conservancy -- It is a walking tour so bring comfortable shoes -- "Broadway's National Register Historic Theater District encompasses the largest concentration of pre-World War II movie houses in America. This tour explores the unique architecture and history of this street. (Interior access may vary by tour.)" It's impossible to understand the history of the film industry without understanding the exhibition end just as well as production or distribution. This is where it all started.
For a preliminary virtual tour, you can go here.
After the tour, we will have lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria. Listen to the NPR story on this 1930s Depression era landmark here.
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