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The rear of the auditorium. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927. There's also a version of the photo in the USC Digital Library collection.
The California State Library has 63 Mott Studios pictures of the Mayan in their Mott-Merge collection, including many alternate takes. Their set #001442998 has 17 photos, set #001412054 has 16 photos, set #001412080 has 14 photos and set #001386186 has 16 photos.
Back in the rear of the main floor house left. Check out that door on the left. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927
A 1927 Mott Studios detail of an exit door at the head of a main floor aisle. It's a photo in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. The USC Digital Library also has a copy in their California Historical Society collection.
Workman are preparing a plaster cast for installation. It would end up as part of a sidestage column. It's a Los Angeles Public Library photo.
The house left sidestage. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927. The Los Angeles Public Library also has a version of the photo.
The house right sidestage. It's a photo credited to to the Padilla Co. that's in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. A version from the California Historical Society collection is on the USC Digital Library website. USC also has another version of the photo.
The ceiling and booth from onstage. The photo from the Theatre Historical Society/Terry Helgesen Collection appears in "Great American Movie Theaters, A National Trust Guide" by David Naylor (Preservation Press, Washington, D.C., 1987).
A wider view to the rear in 1927 from the California Historical Society. It's in the USC Digital Library collection.
Looking in at the amazing ceiling from the house right entrance to the balcony. It's a Padilla Co. photo in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. There's also a version of the photo on the USC Digital Library website.
The view back toward that house right exit at end of the crossaisle. Take a left and you're on the fire escape. Take a right and you're on the stairs down to the balcony lobby. The photo from the Padilla Co. is in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. There's also a version of it on the USC Digital Library website.
The view from the house right end of the crossaisle. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927
Looking across the balcony. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927
The ceiling from house right. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927
An impressive view of the proscenium and the fire curtain from the balcony. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927. There's also a version of the photo in the USC Digital Library collection.
A wider look at the proscenium and the side stages. It's a photo from a magazine article that ended up in the California Historical Society Collection. It appears on the USC Digital Library website. USC also has another version of the photo. The Los Angeles Public Library also has the photo.
Tired of looking at the asbestos? Here's a view of another curtain from the Padilla Co. that's in the Los Angeles Public Library collection. There's also a version of this in the USC Digital Library collection.
The house left sidestage from the balcony. Photo: Mott Studios - California State Library - 1927
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