This is an other side trip during our LA SUBWAY SAFARI. Emily read on her travel book about the Broadway district. It is very close to LA downtown. Here is where there are the old LA movie theatres, now forgotten. Not even used anymore for movie screening. But still architectural masterpieces of the Art Deco period. So we decided to jump out of the metro and check them out ...
The movie theatres are in a strand of 6 blocks. And they are really masterpieces. All of them. And it is so strange to happen to know they are here only 4 years after I live here in LA ...
The area is pretty run down. But full of energy. Lots of people in the streets. Lots of shops open. But of course you can't expect to see the folks you see in Rodeo Dr. or in Beverly Hills. People is straggling to make the ends here. But again, I still prefer to spend an afternoon walking here, rather than in the fake Rodeo Dr. Here there is people who really have problems to make the ends. And some homeless ...
... we saw also people with weird passions. Like this guy waling with a snake on his neck. Really weird passion. At least tit looks weird to me. I guess this goes again in my not understanding of the passion for pets. Cats, dogs and snakes don't make much of a difference to me. Anyways, going back to the theatres. All the theatres are now either closed or transformed in churches. We managed to see the inside of only one of them. Because it is now used as a church, no pictures were allowed inside. But I managed to take a couple of pictures. You can judge by yoursef the wealth of the interiors ...
The movie theatres are in a strand of 6 blocks. And they are really masterpieces. All of them. And it is so strange to happen to know they are here only 4 years after I live here in LA ...
The area is pretty run down. But full of energy. Lots of people in the streets. Lots of shops open. But of course you can't expect to see the folks you see in Rodeo Dr. or in Beverly Hills. People is straggling to make the ends here. But again, I still prefer to spend an afternoon walking here, rather than in the fake Rodeo Dr. Here there is people who really have problems to make the ends. And some homeless ...
... we saw also people with weird passions. Like this guy waling with a snake on his neck. Really weird passion. At least tit looks weird to me. I guess this goes again in my not understanding of the passion for pets. Cats, dogs and snakes don't make much of a difference to me. Anyways, going back to the theatres. All the theatres are now either closed or transformed in churches. We managed to see the inside of only one of them. Because it is now used as a church, no pictures were allowed inside. But I managed to take a couple of pictures. You can judge by yoursef the wealth of the interiors ...
1 comment:
I think it's better to see old architecture being reused as something it wasn't intended for rather than seeing it being torn down to put a "modern" facility in it's place. It's a shame that you weren't able to get into more of the old theaters, I'll bet some of them were really grand! I enjoyed this post.
DS
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