12250 Hawthorne Blvd. Hawthorne, CA 90250 | map |
Opening: Although it was reported as being "under construction" in 1925 it never opened. It was to have been operated by West Coast Theatres, a project of their subsidiary Venice Investment Co. The new theatre was to be on the east side of Hawthorne Blvd. 400' north of Broadway.
It could be that West Coast was trying to get the lease on the newly announced Plaza Theatre and when that failed they decided to build their own house nearby.
Architect: John Paxton Perrine
Status: It was all fake news. Well, if it was indeed under construction it was soon abandoned. It's not known what else was built on the site. That location today is in the middle of the defunct Hawthorne Plaza shopping mall.
More information: See the page about the Plaza Theatre, opened in 1927. Hawthorne's earlier theatre, the Hawthorne, was later called the Rex and the Cal. It survived into the early 1950s.
Many thanks to Jerry Miles for sharing his research. Cinema Treasures has a page on the Rex which has some data about that one on Broadway co-mingled with information about the Roosevelt.
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