^ "Apple Nabs Retail Space in Downtown Los Angeles | Los Angeles Business Journal".^ "Rumors: Apple Store Taking Over Historic Tower Theatre in Downtown LA".^ "Apple takes over DTLA's historic Tower Theatre after decades of vacancy".^ Photo of Tower Theater, 1951, with "Newsreel" on marquee, USC Digital Library."Los Angeles Theatres: Tower Theatre: recent exterior views". ^ "Tower Theatre - Historic Los Angeles Theatres - Downtown".Follies: A Critical Look at Growth Politics & Architecture, Santa Monica, CA: Cityscape Press, p. 199, ISBN 0-962 ^ a b c d Kaplan, Sam Hall (1989), L.A.^ a b c d e f g Lord, Rosemary (2002).^ a b "Tower Theater, HCM #450, in Downtown Los Angeles".The refurbished space opened on Jas an Apple Store, with the store serving as a flagship Apple Store for Los Angeles. The company also released an artist's rendering of the converted space. On August 2, 2018, The Los Angeles Times reported that Apple was submitting plans for the renovation of the building. Six months later, The Los Angeles Business Journal reported that Apple was "in the process of securing a lease". In November 2015, the website DTLA Rising reported that Apple was interested in leasing the Tower for a retail store. Over the years, its lobby has been leased to various vendors, and the auditorium has been used by the Living Faith Evangelical Church. Current use Īs with many other historic theaters in Downtown Los Angeles, though largely intact, the theater was abandoned for many years because of migration of cinema attendance to Hollywood Boulevard and other Los Angeles locations. The Tower Theatre has been declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, HCM #450, by the Office of Historic Resources, Department of City Planning, City of Los Angeles.
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The Tower Theatre's exterior and/or interior can be seen in the following films and TV series: For a while during the early 1950s, the name was changed to the Newsreel Theater. The theater opened in 1927 with the silent film The Gingham Girl starring Lois Wilson and George K. It was the first theater in Los Angeles to be air conditioned. The Tower was the first film house in Los Angeles to be wired for talking pictures, and it was the location of the sneak preview and Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros.' revolutionary part-talking The Jazz Singer (1927), starring Al Jolson. Its exterior features a prominent clock tower, the very top of which was removed after an earthquake. Its interior was modeled after the Paris Opera House. Seating 900 on a tiny site (50 feet wide by 153 feet long ), replacing the 650-seat 1911 Garrick Theatre, it was designed in powerful Baroque Revival style with innovative French, Spanish, Moorish, and Italian elements all executed in terra-cotta. The Tower was the first theater designed by architect S. He would also build the Los Angeles Theatre in 1931. The Tower Theatre, at South Broadway and West Eighth Street, was commissioned by H.L.
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