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Dixie Theatre

6520 S. Normandie Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90044 | map |

Opened: May 20, 1938 with "Everybody Sing" and "Arsene Lupin Returns." Hal Morris was the operator. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for researching the opening for a Facebook thread about the theatre on Ken's Movie Page.

This Greek Revival style building in the Harvard Park area dates from 1920 and was initially used as a church. It's on the northeast corner of Normandie and 65th Place. Joe Vogel has determined that the church that was using it in the 30s built a replacement nearby in 1938. 
 
 

This Southwest Wave article appeared May 20, 1938 under the banner headline "New Dixie Theater On Normandie Avenue Opens Tonight." Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating it. The Wave was a paper  covering the local African-American community.
 

"Always a good show for less!" It's the opening day ad in the Southwest Wave. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating it.


Opening week's second program. It's a May 1938 flyer for "The New Dixie Theatre." Thanks to Jim 6213 for posting it on Cinema Treasures. He notes that he found it in an old box of his mother's.



Theatre listings including the Dixie in 1946. 



A 1950 ad for the Dixie. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for sharing this ad as well as the 1946 listing on a Photos of Los Angeles Facebook post. 
 
 

"Wait a little - save a lot!" It's a May 1950 ad located in the Southwest Wave by Ken McIntyre. 

Closing: The theatre was running into the early 1950s. The closing date is unknown but by August 1954 it had been churched again. 

Status: It's still a church.



2017 - A marquee detail. Photo: Google Maps



2019 - Thanks to Peter Chacona Chaconas for his photo, a post on the Photos of Los Angeles Facebook page.



2019 - A look along the side wall on 65th Place. Note the windows from the building's initial use. Photo: Google Maps

More information: See the Cinema Treasures and Cinema Tour pages about the Dixie. 

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