Opened: Perhaps 1911. The Isis Theatre is listed in that year's city directory. It was on the east side of the street several buildings north of 6th St. The photo was taken in 1912 by G. Haven Bishop for the Southern California Edison Co. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for finding it in the Huntington Library collection.
A detail from the G. Haven Bishop photo.
The 500 block of S. Spring. The Isis Theatre at 542 shows in the skinny building just to the right of the blue rectangle at the corner of 6th & Spring. The map is a detail from plate 002 of the 1914 Baist Real Estate Survey from Historic Map Works. The theatre mid-block at 527, just south of the Alexandria Hotel, was the Rose Theatre.
An Isis ad in the L.A. Record in January 1918. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for posting this and other theatre ads from the Record on the Photos of Los Angeles Facebook page.
Closed: Perhaps 1918 was it. It was listed in the 1917 city directory but not in the 1918 edition.
Status: The building the Isis was in has been demolished. There's now a parking lot on the site.
6th and Spring in October 1910 with crowds storming the All Night and Day Bank on the NE corner. That's 6th St. going off to the right. The Isis Theatre hasn't quite arrived yet. It would be in the whitest and skinniest of the five buildings on the far left. It's a Los Angeles Public Library photo.
A detail from the 1910 photo with the future home of the Isis the second building in from the left. The bay-windowed bank building on the corner and three buildings to its left would soon be replaced with the much more imposing Merchants National Bank Building. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for this one, a post on the Photos of Los Angeles Facebook page.
The site of the Isis, now a parking lot. That's a bit of the Merchant's Bank Building on the right, now loft apartments. The tallest of the buildings we see over on Main St. is the Santa Fe Building at 6th and Main. Photo: Bill Counter - 2019
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