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| Above, the Southside Theater in 1949. |
On Vermont Avenue near Imperial Highway in Los Angeles stood the Southside Theater. Well, the building still stands as a church, but it looks largely unchanged since it opened on September 21, 1949.
It was the closest theater to where I lived in Los Angeles from 1958 to 1966.
The design of the theater looked like a giant quonset hut, but it was a big theater that had 1,466 seats.
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| Above, I went with friends to see this movie at the Southside Theater. |
I have been to the theater many times with my parents in the 1960s. But the only movies I remember seeing there were The War Lord (1965) with Charlton Heston and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) with Melvin Van Peebles.
To read more about the Southside Theater, go here.
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