Old Movie Palaces in Downtown L.A.

For my Representing the Metropolis class with Prof. Koss at Scripps, we went on a field trip last Saturday. I'm normally not too fond of waking up at 8 am on weekends to venture into Los Angeles, but this particular trip turned out to be really interesting. We visited a bunch of old movie theaters on Broadway in L.A. (like the Orpheum, the Palace, the State, and so on). Some of them are abandoned...some of them have been converted into churches...and others now look like regular stores from the front, but once you go back into their storerooms you see the remains of an old movie theater. It's pretty incredible.

For descriptions and images of the theaters, check out this digital tour site (although it's much cooler in person).

To learn more about the actual tour or to make reservations, visit the tour page of the L.A. Conservancy website.