," an eleven minute short Angus Wall made for Netflix to celebrate the theatre's reopening in 2023.
2022 - The stripped out area of the house left singer's box. Photo: Bill Counter - January 6
2022
- Looking along the east wall toward the forecourt. That opening with
the orange mesh is an office area, formerly the men's smoking room,
that's above the boxoffice space. Photo: Bill Counter - January 6
2022 - Thanks to Tyler Purcell for this photo, a January post on the
Friends of 70mm Facebook page.
2022 - Getting a bit more treacherous to walk out to the forecourt. Photo: Bill Counter - February 7
2022 - Looking along the east wall after more digging adjacent to the building. That's the back of the singer's box in the upper left. Bill Counter - May 12
2022 - Farther toward the forecourt. The red marks on the concrete indicate where repairs and patching are needed. Bill Counter - May 12
2022 - A view back toward the stage end of the building. Bill Counter - May 12
2022 - A peek in the front exit house left. Bill Counter - May 12. See the auditorium page for many photos of the interior during construction.
2022 - The east wall as construction continues. Once upon a time the building on the right was the Egyptian II and III. Bill Counter - May 12
2022 - A view a month later without the blue tarp. Repairs on the concrete columns are winding up and the voids will soon get filled in. Photo: Bill Counter - June 21
2022 - A closer look at the stagehouse. The man up there on the beam with the rotohammer is drilling holes for insertion of pieces of horizontal rebar before concrete is poured to fill in the walls. Photo: Bill Counter - June 21
2022 - The stagehouse and auditorium getting sealed up again with new concrete in many of the bays. Photo: Bill Counter - July 20
2022 - Scaffolding going up to do some infill at the top and stucco the stagehouse. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - A look up to the former smoking lounge above the boxoffice area. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - The vista back toward the stage end of the building. The opening on the far right goes into the lobby. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - An auditorium side wall plaster detail. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - The back of the house left singer's box. That's new concrete in the areas covered with the black membranes. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - A stagehouse view as scaffolding goes up. Photo: Bill Counter - August 19
2022 - The exterior walls continued to get filled in. Photo: Bill Counter - September 16
2022 - A look toward the stagehouse from up the block on Las Palmas. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - A cutaway view of the rooftop organ chambers in front of the proscenium wall. The sloped area on the right is the tone shoot that directed the sound down to the auditorium via the ceiling sunburst grille. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - The open top of the wall is the rear of the deconstructed parapet above the theatre entrance. The guess is that Sid had a walkway built along the back of the wall for his Bedouin to patrol the rooftop. The angle seen on the side of the structure follows the line of the tile roof seen from the street. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - In the exit passage along the east side of the building looking toward Hollywood Blvd. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - Looking back toward the stagehouse with a fine view of some of the new steel going into the east wall. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - The exit to the forecourt. Photo: Bill Counter - October 14
2022 - While most of the passage along the east side of the building had been filled in, the excavation continued on the lobby end of the building. Photo: Bill Counter - November 22
2022 - A look into the hole on this side of the exit to the forecourt. Photo: Bill Counter - November 22
2022 - More areas on the east wall continued to be filled in. Photo: Bill Counter - November 22
2023 - Work continues on the east wall. Photo: Bill Counter - January 20
2023 - A look north along the wall. Photo: Bill Counter - February 21
2023 - The exit to the forecourt. Photo: Bill Counter - February 21
2023 - New stucco along the auditorium wall. Photo: Bill Counter - May 22
2023 - Getting golden again. Photo: Bill Counter - June 9
2023 - New concrete along this side of the building. Photo: Bill Counter - July 26
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