Los Angeles Theatres: Earl Carroll Theatre: exterior views

1938 - A Herman Schultheis shot of the installation work on the famous neon on the exterior. The piece, a 20' high likeness of Mr. Carroll's companion Beryl Wallace, is ringed with the words "Thru These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Girls in the World" in aluminum letters. The photo is in the Los Angeles Public Library collection.

1939 - A photo taken in August by Maynard Parker. It's from the Huntington Library collection. The link to the Huntington will also get you thumbnail views of 21 additional photos of the theatre by Mr. Parker.

1939 - Thanks to Rick Watts for finding this one for a post on the private Facebook group Photos of Los Angeles. It's from the LAPL/Bruce Torrence Historic Hollywood Photographs collection.

1939 - The neon-illuminated Electrical Products Corporation "Zeon" service truck in front. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this photo from his collection on Flickr. With co-author Tom Zimmerman, Eric is responsible for the Angel City Press book "Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles 1925-1965." Also see his 2016 book "Signs of Life: Los Angeles is the City of Neon."

1939 - A nice angle on the facade neon. It's an ad that appeared in a 1939 issue of the theatre program magazine Playgoer. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this from his collection on Flickr. And kudos to Ken McIntyre for spotting it for a post on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

c.1939 - Thanks to Bob Sly for sharing this photo, one taken by his uncle Harry Croome.

1939 - A Frasher Foto Card in the collection of the Pomona Public Library. Their Frasher Postcard Collection has hundreds of photos from all over southern California.

1939 - A lovely postcard view east on Sunset. On the left it's the NBC and CBS buildings but no Palladium yet. It didn't arrive until 1940. It's a card included in the 2016 Cultural Heritage Commission Final Report, a 498 page pdf from the L.A. Department of City Planning. There are some postcards beginning on page 125 and the document's program collection starts on page 129.

c.1939 - A card from the site Card Cow. The number in the lower corner isn't the date -- it's earlier than that.

c.1939 - A view of the tire shop along the east side of the theatre. Thanks to Michael Hayashi for the photo, a post on Photos of Los Angeles. Parking at the time was 15 cents.

c.1940 - Thanks to Cezar Del Valle for this early postcard of the theatre from his Theatre Talks collection. There's also a version of this one on Card Cow. Card Cow also has another night postcard of the theatre from across the street.

c.1940 - A postcard view by Bob Plunkett from the Los Angeles Public Library collection. Another version of the card from the Michelle Gerdes collection appears on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

1940 - Earl Carroll and some of the showgirls with autographed blocks that would be installed on the theatre's facade. It's a photo by Gene Lester in the Herald Examiner collection at the Los Angeles Public Library.

c.1940 - The letters that said "THEATRE" on the west and east walls, as well as those above the marquee, were sequenced in about a four second display so that they first said "EAT," then "AT," then "THE" and, finally, "THEATRE." The signs were not in sync. You can see the west wall signage in action near the end of a 4 minute clip of Christmas footage on YouTube from Periscope films. Thanks to Glen Norman for locating it.

1940-41 - An Ansel Adams shot of Beryl in neon on the facade. The photo is in the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. Note the poster for Jimmy Durante. He appeared in the revue "Pan-Americana" that opened in December 1940.

1940-41 - A detail from the Ansel Adams photo showing some of the tube supports and connections. The aluminum letters of the "halo" were backlit with blue neon. Beryl's face was done in the new Zeon peach color, referred to in promotional literature as "flesh-colored neon." The vertical bands farther left on the facade were in white.

Thanks to Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein for sharing their findings. They are the authors of the 2021 book "Neon: A Light History." For the exterior restoration work funded by Essex Properties they have done an extensive investigation of the neon installation as well as the original look of the facade. In a presentation about the theatre for the 2024 annual meeting of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles they shared materials from Signmakers, a sign shop that's a collaborator on the project. See their illustrations showing the layout of the vertical tubing on the facade, details of the neon face, and sequencing of the Eat-At-The-Theatre animation.

1942 - The Wikipedia article on the Earl Carroll Theatre has this photo taken by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. It's in the Library of Congress collection. Note the fire escape from the upstairs offices, added in 1941.

1940s - Note the green color of the facade in this card -- evidently accurate, according to research by Paul Greenstein and Dydia DeLyser. Thanks to Mark for including this card with his post about the theatre on the blog Having A Nice Time. It also appears in the Hollywood section of the site Penny Postcards of California.

The back of the card reads: "The Earl Carroll Theatre - Restaurant in the heart of Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard near Vine, is a favorite Nite Spot in the Film Capital of the World. Seating arrangements are terraced so all guests may enjoy an unobstructed view of the lavish stage production with 'Sixty of the Most Beautiful Girls in the World.'"

1943 - A photo from the collection of Paul Greenstein. Thanks to Martin Turnbull for sharing it on a Hollywood's Garden of Allah Facebook post.

c.1943 - A card from Elizabeth Fuller's lovely Old Los Angeles Postcards collection on Flickr. There's also a copy of the photo used for the card in the Los Angeles Public Library collection.

c.1943 - A Hulton Archive view along the facade from Fox Photos/Getty Images. It's in "The Hollywood Palladium will become an LA cultural monument," a 2016 LAist article by Elina Shatkin. Martin Turnbull later put it on his website and gave it a 1942 date based on a license plate. Mystery writer J.H. Graham has it in her article about the Palladium and notes the banner for Tommy Dorsey's little bother Jimmy, who appeared there "at least three times: October 1941, August 1943, and June 1944."

c.1943 - An interesting Bob Plunkett card with no copy on the marquee except several quotation marks. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this one from his vast collection. It's on Flickr.

1945 - Thanks to Richard Wojcik for sharing this great shot of servicemen visiting the theatre. Richard shared this one as a post on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page.

1940s - A snapshot from the Sean Ault collection. Thanks, Sean!

c.1945 - "$1.65 Includes Lavish Revue and Dancing." But no dinner included in the package at that price. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this photo from his collection on Flickr.

c.1945 - The theatre is in the upper center with its vast parking lot to the right. The Palladium is in the center on the left and the NBC Studios at Sunset and Vine is in the lower right. It's a shot from ten minutes of footage titled "Hollywood, California Aerials" on Internet Archive. It's fascinating but messes with your brain as it's flipped. Toward the end of the reel we go to the Hollywood Bowl and out the freeway to the Universal backlot. There's another version on YouTube with the studio footage and Hollywood Bowl at the beginning. Thanks to Alison Martino for posting an unflipped version of the footage on YouTube. See another image from the footage but looking west.

c.1946 - Neon historian Paul Greenstein notes that this shot with the signage turned on shows how vibrant the neon was even in the daylight. Thanks to Paul for sharing this image from his collection. Versions of it can also be seen on the sites Media Storehouse and Alamy.

1946 - Big plans for a new film theatre were announced but never realized. The Los Angeles Public Library photo appeared on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page, where Brian Michael McCray offered details on the never-built theatre:

"Seating 7,000, $15 Million, structure to be larger than Radio City Music Hall, Sunset Boulevard, a half a block east of current structure. Proscenium 130 ft., THREE revolving stages 75x100, and ice rink AND a water tank, so that Esther Williams and Sonja Hennie could BOTH perform simultaneously while 110 dizzy dames twirled. Movie Theatre, TV studios, nightclub and a high rise office tower topped with a heliport. (And we got The Cinerama Dome instead.)" Thanks, Brian!

c.1947 - Thanks to Lewis Lustman for sharing this shot of his mother in front of the entrance. He added it as a comment to a 2023 post about the theatre by Pam Petronio on the Lost Angeles Facebook group.

c.1947 - A Burton Frasher Card in the collection of the Pomona Public Library. There's also a higher resolution version on Calisphere.

c.1947 - A view of the theatre from "The Aquarius Theater," Alison Martino's 2009 post on her Martino's Time Machine blog. The photo also appears on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page and with her 2015 Los Angeles Magazine article "Uncovering a Secret Gem...."

c.1947 - A fine look west from El Centro. Chris Nichols notes that the Mark C. Bloome building we see snuggled up to the east wall of the theatre was by Arthur Froehlich and built in 1946. The 3 minute car wash was 45 cents. The photo has popped up on several Facebook pages including Classic Hollywood/Los Angeles/SFV and Lost Angeles.

1947 - A frame from 16mm Kodachrome footage shot by Mitch Waldow. Thanks, Mitch!

1948 - Looking west from El Centro St. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for finding the photo for a post for the private Facebook group Photos of Los Angeles. David Sorenson notes that it appears somewhere on a Water & Power Associates Museum page. Jim O'Neill commented that there's a banner on the left at the Kaiser-Fraser dealer advertising the 1948 Frazer. Post-war inflation: the car wash was up to 49 cents.

Earl Carroll and Beryl Wallace died in a plane crash in June 1948.

1948 - The "Celebrity Wall." It's a postcard in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. There's also a different black and white postcard using a photo by Bob Plunkett. Both Card Cow and Penny Postcards of California have copies of that one. The price, without dinner, was up to $1.85.

1948 - Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this September photo from his collection. It's on Flickr.

c.1948 - Thanks to Tom Anderson for locating this fine view west for a post on the private Facebook group Mid Century Modern. Richard Wojcik also shared it on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page as a comment to a post of a 1958 photo.

c.1949 - A postcard view of the celebrity autograph plaque wall from Brian Michael McCray's amazing Hollywood Postcards collection. Thanks, Brian! Another version of this star wall postcard from the John Marshall collection appears as a post on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

1949 - A shot from a family vacation in California. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing this from his collection. Start with this shot on Flickr and you can page in both directions to see other L.A. locations this family took photos of including Grauman's Chinese, the Palladium, the NBC building, CBS Square and various nightclubs.

1949 - Another shot from the family vacation album that ended up in Eric Lynxwiler's collection on Flickr.

1949 - A view of the autograph blocks from the family vacation album. Thanks to Eric Lynxwiler for sharing these on Flickr. In addition to the three shots seen here, the family album had four additional Earl Carroll views that can be seen on Flickr.

c.1951 - Thanks to Sean Ault for this fine night view taken when CBS was using the theatre. It's also on Vintage Los Angeles as a post from Richard Wojcik.

c.1953 - The theatre became the Moulin Rouge in 1953. Thanks to Laura De Marco for this shot. It was once posted on the Facebook page Vintage Los Angeles but then vanished.

c.1954 - An "All New Show" shot from the Los Angeles Public Library collection. Also see a daytime "All New Show" photo in the Library's collection.

c.1954 - A great 3 minute compilation of Hollywood footage. Luke Sacher's "Hollywood 50s Neon" on YouTube features the Moulin Rouge, Grauman's Chinese, the Egyptian and lots more.

c.1954 - "New Acts" -- including Miss Malta. Thanks to the Classic Hollywood/Los Angeles/SFV Facebook page for locating the photo. It's one by Bob Willoughby that appears on the Getty Images site. They give it a January 1, 1950 date which shouldn't be trusted.

c.1954 - A lovely view shared by Hector Acuna on the private Facebook group Mid Century Modern Los Angeles.

c.1954 - Among the acts appearing were the Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals, Chiquita & Johnson and the DeCastro Sisters. Minevitch died in 1955. The revue was directed by Donn Arden. The Mike Roberts Kodachrome photo is on a card that appeared on eBay. On the back: "Frank Senne's [sic] Moulin Rouge - Hollywood California - World's largest theatre restaurant. The showplace of the world, featuring lavish productions on stage and famous food."

c.1954 - "Revue of 80." This card that was on eBay dates from about the same time as the previous one.

1954 - A November 11 shot from Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives. It can be seen on the site Fine Art America. Thanks to Martin Turnbull for locating it in the collection and sharing it on the Garden of Allah Novels Facebook page.

c.1955 - It's a photo from the Hulton Archive appearing on the Getty Images site. Don't believe the 1945 date they give it. Tom Anderson included this one in his post of 18 photos for part four of his "Los Angeles After Dark" series for the Facebook group Lost Angeles.

c.1955 - A great Moulin Rouge postcard that appeared on eBay. The show "Paris Toujours" opened September 28, 1955. A version is also on the site Card Cow.

1957 - A lovely Moulin Rouge view. The show was Donn Arden's "C'est la Vie" with Louis Armstrong. The show had opened in January with Billy Daniels headlining. Dean Martin was the star in April, Dennis Day headed the show in May, Louis was the attraction in June, Jean Fenn and Liberace were at the top of the bill in July. Thanks to Alison Martino for locating the image. It appears with her 2015 Los Angeles Magazine article "Uncovering a Secret Gem..." It's also on the private Facebook group Photos of Los Angeles.

1958 - The Moulin Rouge was featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. and the Will Mastin Trio in the Donn Arden revue "Pariscope." Thanks to Sean Ault for sharing this February photo. Sammy joined the show January 28 for a four week run. Variety reviewed it in their February 6 issue. It's on Internet Archive.

1958 - Jerry Lewis was doing a stint as the headliner of "Persicope" in this Summer shot spotted by Kurt Wahlner when it was offered on eBay. Bruce Wojcik notes that he was the successful bidder on for the slide, now in his collection.

1958 - A closer take by the same photographer as the previous Jerry Lewis shot. Thanks for spotting this one, Kurt!

1959 - Picketing in style. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating the photo for a post on Photos of Los Angeles. Bruce Kimmel notes: "They're not picketing the Fred Astaire Show, which shot at NBC in Burbank. They're picketing the upcoming Emmy Awards show that took place at the Moulin Rouge. They were dark for a week during that period, until Sammy opened on the 9th of May."

c.1959 - "World's Greatest Entertainment Value." It's an image from a short bit of Getty Images footage that was shot by Warner Bros. The "Public Parking Here" sign below the readerboard includes mention of "Queen For a Day." Also see a similar clip from Getty showing more of the readerboard but less of the Palladium. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating these.

1959 - A signage detail spotted by Ken McIntyre for a post on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

1960 - A colorful view east from Vine St. It's a sliver of a much larger image that was located on eBay by Martin Pal. He has it on Noirish Los Angeles post #56145.

1960 - The Moulin Rouge running "Oriental Fantasy" featuring, among other acts, the Oriental hillbillies Ming and Ling, dancer Tokuno Azuma and "40 Lovely and Lively Geisha Girls from Tokyo." Many thanks to Kathy Kikkert for putting this photo on the back cover of her 2023 Angel City Press book "Hollywood Signs: The Golden Age of Glittering Graphics and Glowing Neon."

c.1961 - Thanks to G.S. Jansen for sharing this nice "Queen For a Day" view by an unknown photographer on his Noirish Los Angeles post #1506. Visit Noirish LA for a great ride around the "bright and guilty place" that is Los Angeles!

c.1961 - A Moulin Rouge shot that Noirish Los Angeles contributor Ethereal Reality found on eBay for his Noirish post #23819. Also see several nice views of the theatre on his Noirish post #5759. In this shot there's a swing stage hung halfway down the facade with a couple of guys getting rid of the last of the pink paint job.

c.1962 - By the time of this "Queen For a Day" shot the paint job was done and the Frank Sennes name had been removed from the marquee. Thanks to Adsausage for sharing this one from their collection.

1963 - A lovely "Queen For a Day" view from Tikbalang Douglas who posted it on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

1965 - A look at the celebrity autograph slabs from the Richard Wojcik collection on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page. Note here we still have the Beryl Wallace neon on the building. Thanks, Richard!

1966 - The Turtles at the wall. It's a photo taken by Ray Graham for the L.A. Times that's in the UCLA Times Photographs Collection. Thanks to Alison Martino for locating the shot for a post on her Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page.

1966 - A detail that was extracted from the previous shot by Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein as part of their investigation of the facade and its neon installation for the exterior restoration funded by Essex Properties. They note that here we can see the tubing in the vertical niches. Paul adds that that the connections seen on the right are indicative of later, less professional work while the doubleback over on the left is properly done and most likely from the original 1938 installation. Dydia and Paul are the authors of the 2021 book "Neon: A Light History."

1966 - Thanks to Richard Wojcik for this photo taken in June of the Palladium and the Earl Carroll, here as the Hullabaloo. Hullabaloo had opened December 5, 1965. The photo was a post of his on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page. He notes that the dirt in the foreground is the site of the then recently demolished NBC complex at Sunset and Vine.

1966 - This cropped version of Richard's photo is from Alison Martino on Flickr. The image also appears with her 2015 Los Angeles Magazine article "Uncovering a Secret Gem...." Thanks, Alison!

1967 - George Barris at the Hullabaloo in his customized Oldsmobile Tornado. Thanks to Bobby Cole for sharing the photo on the Mid Century Modern private Facebook group.

1968 - An April shot of the building as the Kaleidoscope. Thanks to Joshua Weisel for the photo he found, added as a comment to a post on the SoCal Historic Architecture private Facebook group.

1968 - A look at the Kaleidoscope with lines for a Janis Joplin show. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for sharing the photo on the private Facebook group Photos of Los Angeles.

1968 - Thanks to Stephen Fleay for sharing this November Kodachrome shot he took. It was included in a 2019 Facebook post with other shots from his L.A. vacation trip.

1969 - "Hair" producer Michael Butler commissioned the art collective The Fool to design and paint a mural on the north and west sides of the building. It was completed in two months. This photo appears with "Interview With Marijke Koger-Dunham," one of the artists on the project. The article by Heather Harris appears as a 2016 post on the site Fast Film. It originally appeared in Paraphilia Magazine on August 23, 2012.

1969 - "Urania," one of the nine muses depicted on the "Hair" mural. Photo: The Fool / Marijke Koger-Dunham

1969 - Thanks to Bobby Cole for sharing this photo. Note the stars up on the rooftop AC units. He added it as a comment to a post about the 2018 "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" repainting that was on the Mid Century Modern private Facebook group.

c.1970 - "Hair" playing at the Aquarius. Thanks to Mary Bolter for locating this photo for a post on the Southern California Nostalgia private Facebook group. Also see the page on the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies site showing many photos of the recreation of this paint job Quentin Tarantino had done for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood." Sadly, it didn't make it into the finished film.

c.1970 - The mural on the west wall. Thanks to Trullee Fike for sharing this photo and the one below as comments to a post about the theatre by Martin Turnbull on his Garden of Allah Novels Facebook page.

c.1970 - A west wall detail. Photo: Trullee Fike

early 1971 - Thanks to Richard Wojcik for this photo taken after "Hair" had completed a nearly two year run at what was then called the Aquarius Theatre. It was a post on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page. Don't miss Alison Martino's post "The Aquarius Theater" on her blog Martino's Time Machine.

c.1971 - A detail of the painting on the west wall. The photo is one that appears with Alison Martino's 2015 Los Angeles Magazine article "Uncovering a Secret Gem...."

1978 - "Elvis Forever." It's a photo from the McAvoy/Bruce Torrence Historic Hollywood Photographs collection, their #T-004-2. The link will get you to another "Elvis" shot as well as 1979 views of the theatre during the engagements of "Oliver" and "Ain't Misbehavin."

1981 - Filmex at the Aquarius. Thanks to Philip Mershon's Felix in Hollywood Tours for the photo, a post on the Facebook page Vintage Los Angeles. It's also on Flickr from Gerald DeLuca. Thanks to Noirish Los Angeles contributor Ethereal Reality for spotting that appearance for his Noirish post #50385.

1983 - A tour bus shot from the Richard Wokcik collection. He shared it with the Mid Century Modern private Facebook group where he noted that the theatre had recently been acquired by Martin Tahse Productions.

1986 - The theatre as home for "Star Search." Thanks to Jeff Cashdollar for sharing this shot as a comment to a post by Jeff Vail about the theatre for the Facebook page Lost Angeles.

2009 - A look east on Sunset Blvd from Argyle. That's the Palladium on the left. Photo: Google Maps | interactive version |

c.2009 - The Nickelodeon signage. Thanks to Mark for the photo with his post about the theatre on the blog Having A Nice Time.

2010 - The Earl Carroll Theatre as a studio for Nickelodeon. Photo: Bill Counter

c.2011 - A look at the building from Ken Mcintyre on the Photos of Los Angeles private Facebook group.

2013 - Another look at the building by Ken McIntyre, shared on Photos of Los Angeles.

2017 - On the roof from the top of the dressing room stack stage right. We're looking to the south of the building over the stage area. The scene shop behind the stage is much lower and its roof can't be seen from here. Thanks to Mike Hume for this photo and others appearing on these pages. See the fine page about the theatre on his Historic Theatre Photography site.

2017 - A view north across the side of the auditorium roof. Note the Hollywood sign hiding behind the construction crane in the distance. Photo: Mike Hume

2017 - Looking east on Sunset Blvd. Photo: Mike Hume

2017 - A closer view of the post-Nickelodeon facade. Photo: Mike Hume

October 2017 - Looking west along the facade. Photo: Mike Hume

October 2017 - The scene shop at the rear of the building. We're looking east -- the loading doors are at the other end. Photo: Mike Hume

November 2017 - The work on the new building in the parking lot begins. Thanks to Chuck Weiss for the photo on the SoCal Historic Architecture private Facebook group.

February 2018 - West on Sunset. Photo: Bill Counter

February 2018 - The fenced-off porte cochere with the site of the new building on the right. Photo: Bill Counter

February 2018 - A closer look at the entrance. Photo: Bill Counter

February 2018 - The southeast corner of the building. The big rollup gets you into the scene shop. Through the smaller doors on the right you're backstage and can take a left for the stage or dressing room stairs. Straight ahead gets you to the Circle Room. Photo: Bill Counter

October 2018 - The facade getting painted as it was in 1969 for shooting a scene for Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." See the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies post about the film's use of various theatres for many more photos of the building's re-do in progress. Photo: Bill Counter

November 2, 2018 - Cars are in place the day of Quentin's Sunset Blvd. shoot for "Once Upon a Time..." It's a photo by Andrew Cooper for Sony Pictures that once appeared with Emily Zemler's April 2019 L.A. Times article "How 'Rocketman' and 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' uniquely re-create a lost Los Angeles." It's been seen in many locations since then including on IMDb, in a great post about the film's locations on the Italian site Contattaci, and from Richard Wojcik on the Mid Century Modern private Facebook group. Sadly, the building didn't end up in the finished film. Barbara Ling was the production designer.

November 2018 - The theatre under a tent. Photo: Mike Hume. Thanks, Mike! Visit his Historic Theatre Photography site for lots of tech information and hundreds of fine photos of the many theatres he's explored in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

May 2019 - The view down Argyle with the new project rising to the theatre's west. Photo: Bill Counter

April 2020 - A rare unobstructed view of the east side of the building. The structures that had been here have been demolished and a new project will be rising on this side of the building as well. Photo: Bill Counter

April 2020 - The theatre is a long way from reopening but it's nice to see some of the readerboard neon still works. Photo: Bill Counter

April 2020 - A detail of some of the surviving neon. Photo: Bill Counter

June 1, 2020 - A crowd marches east on Sunset protesting police brutality and racial inequality. Thanks to Brad Stubbs for his photo, one of 71 in his "BLM Protest 6-1-20 Hollywood" album on Facebook.

July 2021 - The neighborhood was growing up, with new housing on both sides of the theatre. The building on the right, built by Essex Property Trust in the theatre's former parking lot, is called the Wallace on Sunset. Presumably that's an homage to Beryl Wallace, the star of the Earl Carroll shows. Photo: Bill Counter

2023 - A drone's-eye view appearing on the Loopnet listing for the property from the brokers at JLL. See a PDF of the listing flyer for more information.

2025 - Scaffolding going up for the facade restoration. Thanks to F Hudson Miller for sharing this photo in a June 17 post on the LAHTF Facebook page.

2025 - A last look at the Tarantino mural. Photo: Bill Counter - June 19

2025 - The netting is up. Thanks to Sandi Hemmerlein for sharing her June 25 photo. Don't miss the tales of her adventures on the site Avoiding Regret.

2025 - Looking south on Argyle toward the shrouded building. To the left is part of the Palladium. The apartment building to the right of the theatre is The Wallace, erected on what had been the theatre parking lot. Photo: Bill Counter - September 13

2025 - Part of the scaffolding was taken down in early November revealing the new multi-colored green facade look of 1938. Still to come: vertical neon stripes accenting the panels, a redone marquee, and the famous neon face of Beryl Wallace. Thanks to Esotouric for being on the scene. This shot is from their November 6 video clip on Facebook.

2025 - A look at the new multi-shade "sea-foam green" paint job after scaffolding removal. Photo: Bill Counter - November 18

2025 - East along the facade. Photo: Bill Counter - November 18

2025 - Beryl Wallace's likeness sketched out, ready for tubing installation. The sign contractor is Paul Stoakes of Signmakers. Photo: Bill Counter - November 18

2025 - Paint getting stripped off the marquee. Photo: Bill Counter - December 16

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