Rio Theater In Los Angeles

Above, the Rio Theater circa 1970. The Gospel Records shop once
 was a novelty shop with magic tricks, masks, jokes and other items.

Back around December 1961, Walt Disney's Babes In Toyland with Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands was released. 

Earlier that year (March),  Eugène Lourié's giant monster in London flick, Gorgo was released by MGM. 

I saw both movies on a double-bill at the Rio Theater in Los Angeles on Western Avenue near Imperial Highway with my parents and an aunt and cousins. I don't remember much of Babes In Toyland, but Gorgo is one of my favorite monster movies.

The Rio Theater opened on December 25, 1948 with Red River starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. 

The theater closed in 1971 as the neighborhood deteriorated due to gang activity. It was demolished in the 1990s.