Opened: Sometime around 1914 on the north side of the street a block and a half west of Soto St. At the time, the street the theatre was on was called Brooklyn Ave.
The November 22, 1938 L.A. Daily News photo documented an anti-Nazi protest. The photo is on Calisphere from the UCLA Daily News Negatives collection. It can also be seen on the UCLA website. Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating it for a post on the Photos of Los Angeles Facebook page. "Toy Wife," the theatre's film that week, was a June 1938 release.
Architect: Unknown
Seating: 1,224
By 1942 Eastland Theatres was running the National.
Thanks to Ken McIntyre for locating these April 1942 listings from the
L.A. Times. He added this as a comment to his post of the August 1935
ad.
The page of film listings appearing in the January 27, 1947 issue of the Eastside Journal. Ken McIntyre shared it as a post on Photos of Los Angeles.
Closing: The date is unknown.
Status: It was demolished with a single-story concrete block retail building replacing it. The city's Zimas database notes that the 12,000 s.f. building now on the site dates from 1963.
Looking west on Cesar Chavez. The block building with the blue awning housing Denim Exchange is on the site, using an address of 2225. On the far right is a bit of a new Walgreens building. Photo: Google Maps - 2019
More Information: See the Cinema Treasures page on the National.
There's a fine post about the 1938 anti-Nazi demonstration and the general rise of pro-German sentiment in L.A. in the 1930s on Barrio Boychik, a site subtitled "Your Latino-Jewish friend in the Los Angeles Eastside."
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