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Broadway (Los Angeles)

February 15, 2024

Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.

Broadway Theater and
Commercial District (NRHP)
Broadway Theater and
Entertainment District
(City of Los Angeles)
Broadway looking north towards the historic Theater and Commercial District from Hoxton Hotel Roof (11th St.), September 2020
Location300—849 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates34°2′48″N 118°15′4″W / 34.04667°N 118.25111°W / 34.04667; -118.25111
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleEarly Commercial, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.79000484 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 9, 1979
Broadway
Los Angeles Theatre
Maintained by
Length17.75 mi (28.57 km)
LocationLos Angeles
South endMain Street in Carson
Major
junctions
Northeast endMission Road in Los Angeles
Construction
Inauguration1890

Route edit

South Broadway's southern terminus is Main Street just north of the San Diego Freeway (I-405) in Carson. From there it runs 10 miles (16 km) north through Athens and South Los Angeles to Downtown Los Angeles – at Olympic Blvd. entering downtown's Historic Core, in which the buildings lining Broadway form the Broadway Theater and Commercial District. Crossing 3rd Street, Broadway passes through the Civic Center including Grand Park. After crossing the US-101 (Santa Ana Freeway), signs read "North Broadway" as it enters Chinatown. It then curves northeast, passing through old railyards, crosses the Golden State Fwy. (I-5) and heads due east to its terminus at Mission Road in Lincoln Heights.

History edit

Founding and extension edit

Broadway, one of the oldest streets in the city, was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord and named Fort Street. Fort Street began at the south side of Fort Moore Hill (a block north of Temple Street) at Sand Street (later California Street).

In 1890, the name of Fort Street, from 1st Street to 10th Street, was changed to Broadway. The rest of Fort Street, from California Street to 1st Street, was changed to North Broadway.[3][4]

Proposal for opening Broadway through to Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway), and extending the street south into what was then part of Main Street, below Tenth Street, in order to give a continuous, wide thoroughfare from the southern city limits to the Eastside, was made as early as February 1891.[5]

The Broadway Tunnel under Fort Moore Hill was opened in 1901, extending North Broadway to Buena Vista Street at Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard, now Cesar Chavez Avenue). A section of Broadway in South Los Angeles was originally named Moneta Avenue until 1923.[6]

In 1909, construction on a bridge across the Los Angeles River was begun to connect Buena Vista Street to Downey Avenue, which ran from the river to Mission Road. The names of Buena Vista and Downey were then changed to North Broadway,[7][8][9] but not without significant objections from affected residents and landowners.[10][11][12][13] The bridge, which continued to be referred to as the Buena Vista Street Bridge for a good while, was opened to traffic in late September 1911.[14]

Los Angeles' central commercial and entertainment street edit

See also: History of Retail in Southern California

For more than 50 years, Broadway from 1st Street to Olympic Boulevard was the main commercial street of Los Angeles, and one of its premier theater and movie palace districts as well. It contains a vast number of historic buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Prior to the turn of the 20th century, the city's Central Business District was further north, along Spring and Main streets between the Plaza and 2nd Street. In 1895 J.W. Robinson's opened what was then considered a very large and impressive four-story department store at 239 S. Broadway,[15][16] signaling of the shift over the next decade and a half of the main shopping district to Broadway below 2nd Street.

Retail hub edit

 
Broadway and Seventh, looking north (1914)

From around 1905 through the 1950s, Broadway was considered the center of the city, where residents went to ornate movie palaces and live theaters, and shopped at major department stores and shops. See the Table of department stores on Broadway and Seventh streets below.

The square footage of the four largest department stores alone — Bullock's at 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m2), The Broadway at 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m2),[17] May Co. at over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2)[18] and J. W. Robinson's (7th St. at Hope) at 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[19][20] — totaled over three million square feet, the size of American Dream Meadowlands, America's largest mall today.

Among dozens of significant buildings from that era are the Bradbury Building, Ace Hotel Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Examiner building designed by Julia Morgan.

Some of the movie theaters on the street fell into disuse and disrepair, some were replaced with parking lots, but many have been repurposed and/or restored. The department stores closed in the 1970s and 1980s, but Broadway has been the premier shopping destination for working class Latinos for decades.[21]

Theater District edit

NRHP refers to the district as the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, while the City of Los Angeles Planning Department refers to the Broadway Theater and Entertainment District.[22]

Highest concentration of movie palaces in the world edit

Stretching for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets, the district includes 12 movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931. By 1931, the district had the highest concentration of cinemas in the world, with seating capacity for more than 15,000 patrons. Broadway was the hub of L.A.'s entertainment scene – a place where "screen goddesses and guys in fedoras rubbed elbows with Army nurses and aircraft pioneers."[23] In 2006, the Los Angeles Times wrote:

"There was a time, long ago, when the streets of downtown Los Angeles were awash in neon—thanks to a confluence of movie theaters the world had never seen before. Dozens of theaters screened Hollywood's latest fare, played host to star-studded premieres and were filled nightly with thousands of moviegoers. In those days, before World War II, downtown L.A. was the movie capital of the world."[24]

Columnist Jack Smith called it "the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America."[25] Smith recalled growing up a mile from Broadway and spending his Saturdays in the theaters:

"I remember walking into those opulent interiors, surrounded by the glory of the Renaissance, or the age of Baroque, and spending two or three hours in the dream world of the movies. When I came out again the sky blazed; the heat bounced off the sidewalk, traffic sounds filled the street, I was back in the hard reality of the Depression.[25]

Because Broadway has been used as a filming location for decades, many of these theatre marquees can be seen in classic Hollywood films, including Safety Last! (1923), D.O.A. (1950), The Omega Man (1971), Blade Runner (1982), and The Artist (2011).[26][27]

Revitalization by Spanish-language cinema edit

In the years after World War II, the district began to decline, as first-run movie-goers shifted to the movie palaces in Hollywood, in Westwood Village, and later to suburban multiplexes. After World War II, as Anglo moviegoers moved to the suburbs, many of the Broadway movie palaces became venues for Spanish-language movies and variety shows. In 1988, the Los Angeles Times noted that, without the Hispanic community, "Broadway would be dead."[28] Jack Smith wrote that Broadway had been "rescued and revitalized" by "the Latino renaissance."[25]

Preservation and renovation efforts edit

The district has been the subject of preservation and restoration efforts since the 1980s. In 1987, the Los Angeles Conservancy started a program called "Last Remaining Seats" in which the old movie palaces were opened each summer to show classic Hollywood movies.[23][29] In 1994, the Conservancy's associate director, Gregg Davidson, noted: "When we started this, the naysayers said no one will go downtown to an old theater to see an old movie in the middle of the summer, but we get a number of people who have never seen a movie in a theater with a balcony. The older people (go) for nostalgia. And the movie people—seeing a classic film on a big screen is a different experience."[29] After attending a Conservancy screening, one writer noted: "The other night I went to the movies and was transported to a world of powdered wigs and hoop skirts, a rococo fantasy of gilded cherubs and crystal chandeliers. And then the film started."[23]

Despite preservation efforts, many of the theaters have been converted to other uses, including flea markets and churches. The Broadway movie palaces fell victim to a number of circumstances, including changing demographics and tastes, a downtown location that was perceived as dangerous at night, and high maintenance costs for aging facilities. With the closure of the State Theater in 1998, the Orpheum and the Palace were the only two still screening films.[30]

In 2006, the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Of all of L.A.'s many hidden gems, maybe none is as sparkling nor as hidden as the Broadway theater district downtown."[23] Bemoaning the possible loss of such gems, the same writer noted: "L.A. gave birth to the movies. To lose the astonishing nurseries where the medium grew up would be tragic."[23]

Broadway since 2008 edit

In 2008, the City of Los Angeles launched a $40-million campaign to revitalize the Broadway district, known as the "Bringing Back Broadway" campaign. Some Latino merchants in the district expressed concern that the campaign was an effort to spread the largely Anglo gentrification taking hold in other parts of downtown to an area that has become the city's leading Latino shopping district.[31] A worker at one of the district's bridal shops noted, "On one side, I like the idea. The only thing is that I don't think they want our types of businesses."[31]

The Downtown's real estate revitalization, using the City's adaptive reuse ordinance that makes it easier for developers to convert outmoded and/or vacant office and commercial buildings into residential buildings, has reached the Broadway Historic District. It includes the transformation of the United Artists Theater office tower into the Ace Hotel Los Angeles, and restoration of its movie palace.

The Bringing Back Broadway commission is working on further reviving the landmark Los Angeles boulevard in the historic district. Led by City Councilman Jose Huizar, the commission has recommended widening sidewalks, eliminating traffic lanes, constructing new parking structures, and bringing back streetcar service reminiscent of the street's past.[32] A pedestrian-friendly project finished up in December 2014 that widened the sidewalks and replaced the parking lane with planters, chairs and round cafe tables with bright-red umbrellas. The Great Streets Initiative seeks to bolster the street-level health of the city by making several dozen boulevards more hospitable to pedestrians, cyclists and small businesses. Mayor Eric Garcetti said the effort represents "a shift from the way that our neighborhoods have been planned in Los Angeles," with a new focus on "walkability and transit."[33]

Broadway retail is transitioning from a broad mix of stores catering to Hispanic immigrants and a burgeoning sneaker and streetwear retail cluster has emerged from 4th to 9th streets: Sneaker Row.[34]

Retail in and around the Eastern Columbia, located at the intersection of 9th Street & Broadway, has proliferated in recent years with the opening of Acne Studios, Oak NYC, Aesop, Tanner Goods, BNKR, Austere, A.P.C., and Urban Outfitters located in the Rialto Theater (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 472).[35][36]

Buildings and sites edit

All landmarks in geographic order, north to south:

North of Hollywood Freeway edit

  • Little Joe's (razed), 904 N. Broadway, Chinatown
  • Site of Broadway Tunnel (1901–1941, demolished) below Fort Moore Hill (leveled), between today's Temple St. and César Chávez Bl.

Hollywood Freeway to Temple edit

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    Front-on view, Hall of Justice (1925)
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    Façade, Hall of Justice
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    Corner view, Hall of Justice

This area south to Second Street is now the Civic Center, as well as the site of the Central Business District during the 1880s and 1890s)

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    1905 view south on Broadway from north of Temple Street. The Times Mirror printing house in foreground, marked 110 N. Broadway, now site of the Hall of Justice. Towers of the 1888 City Hall on the 200 block of S. Broadway in the distance. Fort Moore Hill, now leveled, at right.
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    c.1893–1900, looking east along Third St. from Olive St. on Bunker Hill. 3 buildings stand out from left to right: the 1888 City Hall (Broadway between 2nd/3rd), the Stimson Block (3rd & Spring), and the Bradbury Building (3rd & Broadway)

Temple and Broadway edit

Cable cars of the Temple Street Cable Railway ran along Temple Street starting in 1886 and were replaced with Pacific Electric streetcars in 1902.[37][38]

Northwest corner of Temple and Broadway edit

  • The three-story brick Women's Christian Temperance Union building was erected in 1888 for $45,000.[39] Also known as the Temperance Temple, it has been demolished[40] and was replaced in 1957 by the Los Angeles County Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant.[41]

Southeast corner of Temple and Broadway (Pound Cake Hill, west side of New High St.) edit

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    Los Angeles High School
    on Pound Cake Hill, 1870s
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    "Red Stone" Courthouse and Post Office (1891-1936)
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    Hall of Records, adjacent to Courthouse on the south (1911–1973)

This location was at the time known as Pound Cake Hill. The buildings located here faced New High Street to their east and Broadway to their west. They were as follows:[42]

  • Los Angeles High School, whose original location (1873-1887) was between New High on the west and Broadway on the east, south of Temple Street. It was moved to California and Sand streets, and in 1890 a new facility was built on Fort Moore Hill, immediately north of where Broadway today crosses the Hollywood Freeway. The Pound Cake Hill school was demolished and replaced by:
  • First, the Red Stone Courthouse (or "Red Sandstone Courthouse"), which took over the function of courthouse from the Clocktower Courthouse (also called the Temple Courthouse). It was damaged beyond repair by Long Beach earthquake of 1933 and was torn down in 1936.
  • The Los Angeles County Hall of Records was built next to (south of) the Red Sandstone Courthouse in 1911, After the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, it was determined to be unsafe and it was demolished in 1973. A new Hall of Records was built and opened in 1962, one block west on the south side of Temple between Broadway and Hill.

Currently on the site are:

  • Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center (Los Angeles County Grand Jury)
  • A portion of Grand Park, which stretches mid-block between Temple and First, from City Hall at Spring Street, to the Music Center at Grand Avenue.
Realignment of Spring Street (1925) edit

The Poundcake Hill buildings originally backed up to Broadway to their west, and faced New High Street to their east. New High Street (see Sanborn map above) was a north-south street that ran parallel to Broadway, and to Spring Street to its east. As part of the construction of City Hall in the early 1920s, New High Street was removed south of Temple, and Spring Street was realigned more towards a north-south orientation, parallel with Broadway, instead of running more northeasterly and meeting Main Street at Temple Street. As a result the Poundcake Hill buildings faced the newly aligned Spring Street until they were demolished.

Southwest corner of Temple and Broadway edit

Adjacent to the south, mid-block, is a portion of Grand Park.

First and Broadway edit

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    Looking south along Broadway from First Street, 1904-5. At right, from left to right: C.H. Frost Building (#145), 141-3, the turreted Roanoke Bldg (#137-9), Newell & Gammon Bldg. (#131-5), Mason Opera House (#125-9)At left Chamber of Commerce (#128), 1888 City Hall (#228-238).

Northeast corner of First and Broadway edit

Northwest corner of First and Broadway edit

  • Site of the Tajo Building (1896–mid-20th c.).[44] Now the location of the Los Angeles County Law Library.[45]

Southeast corner of First and Broadway and east side of 100 block edit

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    1973 Pereira Addition building, Times Mirror Square
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    1900s view of Chamber of Commerce, 128 S. Broadway
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    Postcard c.1910 of Chamber of Commerce, 128 S. Broadway
  • Site of the Culver Block retail and office building.[46] Now the site of the Times Mirror Square 1973 Pereira Addition, so called because it was designed by William Pereira.
  • South of the Culver Block was the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, 128–130 S. Broadway, opened February 12, 1904,[47] a landmark at the time featured on postcards and in books. 6 stories, 4 floors. Ground floor offices included those of the Los Angeles Herald and Consolidated Bank.[48]

Southwest corner of First and Broadway edit

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    Mason Opera House or Mason Theatre
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    C.H. Frost Building at 145 S. Broadway, c.1904-5. To its right, the turreted Roanoke Bldg. (#137-9), Newell & Gammon Bldg. (#131-5), and the Mason Opera House (#125-9).

The southwest corner, during Victorian times the site of unremarkable retail and office buildings, was from 1958 the location of the State Office Building, (1958-60, architect Anson C. Boyd, razed 2006). It was named the Junipero Serra State Office Building, and this moniker would be transferred to the former Broadway Department Store building at 4th and Broadway when it was opened to replace this building in 1998.[49] It is now the location of the New U.S. Courthouse built in 2016, taking up the entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second.[50]

Just south of the southwest corner was the Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway. Opened in 1903 as the Mason Opera House, 1,600 seats. Benjamin Marshall of the Chicago firm Marshall & Wilson designed the building in association with John Parkinson. Marshall is known for designing the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago. Remodeled in 1924 by Meyer & Holler. Later, as the Mason Theatre, it showed Spanish-language films. Demolished 1955.[51]

145 S. Broadway,[52]site of the C. H. Frost Building, later known as the Haig M. Prince Building. Built 1898, architect John Parkinson,[53] Now the location of the new United States Courthouse built in 2016, taking up the entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second.[50]

Second and Broadway edit

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    Broadway looking south from 2nd St., 1895-1905. The 1888 City Hall is visible on the left (east) side.
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    Another view of Broadway looking south from 2nd St. showing a cable car, c.1893-1895

Northeast corner of Second and Broadway edit

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    The 2nd & Broadway Hellman Building in 1918

One of several “Hellman Buildings” across Downtown L.A. — not to be confused with the still-existing Hellman Building at Fourth and Spring — was located here (#138) from 1897 to 1959.[54] The site is now a parking structure, part of the Times Mirror Square complex.

Southwest corner of Second and Broadway and the west side of the 200 block edit

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    West side of Broadway from #229 (at left) to #207 (at right, SW corner of 2nd St.) sometime after 1894. From left to right: Bicknell Block with the Los Angeles Furniture Co.; Potomac Block with Ville de Paris and City of London stores, the YMCA building with its turret and two gables, and the American National Bank building.
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    American National Bank (later California Bank) Building (1878-1911), southwest corner, 1890. To the viewer's left (south) are the turret and two gables of the YMCA Building (1889), then the Potomac Block (1890).
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    Merchants Trust Company Building in 1910
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    Potomac Block c.1890-1895.
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    The Ville de Paris department store, 1901
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    Boston Dry Goods and Harris Newmark buildings, 1899

The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917, as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris, Coulter's department store from 1905–1917, and J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895–1915. All three stores would move to Seventh Street when it became the upscale shopping street between 1915 and 1917.

  • On the southwest corner of 2nd and Broadway was Judge O'Melveny's house, built in 1870. This was replaced by the American National Bank (later California Bank) Building, which one turn was replaced by the California Building in 1911. Nos. 201-213 Broadway are now known named the Broadway Media Center.

Further south on the west side of Broadway, was 207–211, location of the:

  • YMCA Building (#207–209–211), Romanesque Revival architecture, opened in July 1889, demolished in 1903.
    • The YMCA operated here at #207 from 1889 until 1903,
    • City of London opened here in August 1891, run by Messrs. Hiles and Niccolls, who came from the City of Paris department store. It carried curtains, window shades, comforters, and the like.[55] It operated here until August 1895, when it moved next door to the Potomac Block at #213.[56]

The YMCA Building was demolished to make way for the:

  • Merchants Trust Co. Building.[57]
Coulter's complex: Potomac and Bicknell blocks edit

The adjacent Potomac Block and Bicknell Block originally housed prominent retailers of the day, then were joined together in 1906 by Coulter's department store to form a complex, opening it as a new, 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m2) store in June, 1905.[58][59][60]

Potomac Block edit

The Potomac Block, 213–223 S. Broadway, was from 1905 to 1917 known as the B. F. Coulter Building. It was originally developed by lumberyard and mill owner J. M. Griffith. It was designed in 1888 by Block, Curlett and Eisen in Romanesque architectural style[61] and opened on July 17, 1890.[62]

Tenants included:

  • Ville de Paris department store (at 221–223, from 1893 through 1906),[61]
  • City of London Dry Goods Co., which moved here from next door at #211 in August 1895 and advertised for this location through August 1899.[56]

It was the first time major retail stores opened on South Broadway, in what would be a shift of the upmarket shopping district from 1890 to 1905 from around First and Spring to South Broadway. In 1904, Coulter's bought the Potomac Block, and combined it with the Bicknell block to create its new store that opened in 1905.

After Coulter's moved:

  • 215 continued as a branch of Coulter's through 1927. Then, 215–217 was home to the Pacific Furniture House in the 1940s.
  • 219 housed Fisch's Department Store in the 1940s.

The building was demolished in 1953 and is still the site of a parking lot.[63]

Bicknell Block edit

The Bicknell Block (or Bicknell Building) at 225–229 S. Broadway, with back entrances at 224–228 S. Hill Street. was part of Coulter's from 1905 from 1917. After Coulter's moved in 1917, it housed the Western Shoe Co. (through 1922), later known as the Western Department Store (1922–1928). Lettering covered the face of the building from top to bottom through the end of the 1950s: "THE LARGEST SHOE DEPT. IN THE WEST".[64]

Further south on Broadway edit
  • 231-235, the Harris Newmark Building (1899, Abram Edelman), Bartlett Music Co. (#233), annex to J. W. Robinson's (#235); Goodwill Industries store (#233-235, 1950s–60s). The building still stands, but all floors except the ground floor have been removed.
  • 237-241, the Boston Dry Goods Building (completed 1895, demolished, architects Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt, designer of the Bradbury Building)[65][66] The building was home to J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895 to 1915, Scott's Department Store (239–241, 1920s), Third Street Store (237–241, 1950s–60s). Demolished, currently the site of a parking lot.
  • 251 was home to the I. Magnin speciality department store, which opened here on January 2, 1899;[67] starting 1904, I. Magnin announced that the store would be known by the name of its manager, Myer Siegel.[68]

Southeast corner and east side of Broadway from 2nd to 3rd edit

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    Looking north along Broadway at its east side past 2nd Street. From top left: The L.A. Times Bldg. with castle-like turret, with the 1911 Hall of Records behind it. The Chamber of Commerce Bldg. at #128. Drugstore in the Hellman Bldg. (#144–6) at the NE corner of 2nd Street. Dentist in the Nolan, Smith and Bridge Bldg. (#200–4) at the SE corner of 2nd. New King Hotel in the Gordon Bldg. (#206–10). Victor Clothing in its location from 1926 to 1964 in the Crocker Bldg. (#212–6). Pig 'n Whistle in the Copp Bldg. (#218–224). 1888 City Hall at far right
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    Los Angeles City Hall (1888–1928, demolished)
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    B'nai B'rith Temple (opened 1873), the city's first synagogue
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    Victor Clothing building, #242

The southeast corner of 2nd and Broadway was the site of

  • The First Presbyterian Church was located here in 1894.[69] The church was replaced sometime before 1906 by the:
  • Nolan, Smith and Bridge Building, #200-4 S. Broadway, stores and a restaurant.[70]
  • Now the corner is the site of the Historic Broadway underground light rail station, under construction.

Mid-block were:

  • Crocker Building, #212–6[71] Home to Victor Clothing from 1920 to 1964
  • B'nai B'rith Temple (1873), 214 S. Broadway (post-1890 numbering), the city's first synagogue, razed to make way for the Copp Building, 218–224 S. Broadway, home to the original (1908) Pig 'n Whistle candy shop and tea room.[72] The Pig 'n Whistle would open locations at 7th and Broadway and in Hollywood, where it would become a landmark restaurant that still operates today.
  • City Hall (1888–1928; opened 1888, demolished 1929; 228–238 S. Broadway, architect Solomon Irmscher Haas, Romanesque Revival). Now a parking lot. Three stories, it had a 150-foot (46 m) campanile. Red and brown brick. Housed the Los Angeles Public Library for a time until it moved to the new Hamburger's department store building at Eighth and Broadway in 1908.[73] The site is now part of the "(213) S. Spring" parking garage.[45]
  • #240-246 the Hosfield Building, location of the Natatorium (indoor swimming pool) in 1894 and the Imperial Restaurant in 1906.[71] After 1964, location of Victor Clothing, notable for its changing murals reflecting local Chicano culture. Victor Clothing operated here until 2001, and was known i.a. for its frequent ads on Spanish-language television.[74]

Third and Broadway edit

Northwest corner of Third and Broadway edit

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    Pan American Lofts (built 1895)

The corner is home to one of the oldest buildings outside the Plaza area, the 1895 Irvine Byrne Block or Byrne Block; now called the Pan American Lofts. The architect was Sumner Hunt. It was built in a hybrid Spanish Colonial Revival/Beaux-Arts style.

The building was home to the renowned I. Magnin clothing store that opened here on January 2, 1899;[75] on June 19, 1904, I. Magnin announced that the Los Angeles store would henceforth be known as Myer Siegel.[68] After a fire at the Irvine Byrne Building destroyed its store on February 16, 1911, Myer Siegel moved further south on Broadway.

It was modernized and converted to lofts in 2007 and given its present name. The halls and staircase have appeared in many of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, Brad Pitt's Se7en, Fight Club, Blade Runner, and other TV shows and commercials.[76]

From Third Street south to Olympic Blvd. (originally Tenth St.), and from Hill Street east to Los Angeles Street, including Broadway, is the Historic Core district, the city's main commercial and entertainment area in the first half of the 20th century.

Northeast corner of Third and Broadway edit

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    East side of Broadway looking south past 3rd St, c.1903-4. From left to right 1888 City Hall (with flag), Rindge Block at NE corner of 3rd, Bradbury Building
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    East side of Broadway looking north past 3rd St, c.1888. From left to right 1888 City Hall (with flag), Rindge Block at NE corner of 3rd, Bradbury Building

On this corner:[77]

  • Originally the J. C. Graves house stood here; Graves bought the property in 1879 for $2,250. The house was sold and removed to 10th and Hope streets in 1888.
  • Rindge Block (1898, sold in 1899 for $190,000 to Frederick H. Rindge, the "King of Malibu"), 248–260 S. Broadway, commercial building; the top floors were removed and only the ground floor remains.

Southwest corner of Third and Broadway edit

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    Entrance area, Million Dollar Theatre
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    Roofline, Million Dollar Theatre
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    Detail, side, Million Dollar Theatre

Southeast corner of Third and Broadway edit

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    View from Bunker Hill to Bradbury Building and the Stimson Block at 3rd & Spring. The Pan American Lofts had not yet been built on the NW corner of 3rd & Broadway. Around 1894–5.
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    Bradbury Building in 1894, then anchoring the southwestern end of the business district[80]
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    Bradbury Building in 1960
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    Bradbury Building exterior, 2005
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    Atrium of the Bradbury Building


Third to Fourth edit

South of the intersection of Third and Broadway, sites of interest include:

West side edit

  • #317: Homer Laughlin Building (1896, John Parkinson), 317 S. Broadway, home to Grand Central Market since 1917. Previously home to department stores: Coulter's (1898–1905) and Ville de Paris (1905–1917).
  • Former J. R. Lane Dry Goods store, 327–329 S. Broadway, (successors to Crandall and Lane) located here through the 1910s. Later, this was the location of Field's jewelry store and the Broadway food market. Still standing, now a food court, but top floors were removed; now single story only.[45]
  • #331–5: Former Jacoby Bros. department store, 331–3–5 S. Broadway, from 1900 to 1935. At 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) over four floors plus a basement, it was stated at its opening in 1900 that it had the largest selection of clothing and of shoes in the Western United States.[81] Architect John B. Parkinson.[82] The building was home to an independent "Boston Store" department store in the late 1930s; no relation to J.W. Robinson's or the later regional chain by the same name.[83] Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed. Replaced the First Methodist Episcopalian Church previously located here, which moved to the northeast corner of 6th & Hill.[84] Still standing, but top floors were removed; two floors remain.[45]
  • #337–9: former Haggarty's department store from 1905[85] to 1917.[86]
  • #341–3–5: former J. M. Hale department store from 1909[87] through the 1920s.
  • #351: Site of The Wonder, 351 S. Broadway, opened in 1921, was the largest retail silk store in the U.S.[88]

  • #355–363: Grant Building (originally called the "Grant Block", 1898, 3 stories,[89] enlarged to 7 stores 1901–2 by John Parkinson,[90] now two stories) at 363 S. Broadway, northwest corner of 4th Street. Once seven stories tall, all but the first two floors have been removed.[91] It was home to the W. E. Cummings shoe store, which had a large shoe on the roof of the building, serving as a landmark, then, from 1908, a Montgomery Bros. jewelry store, one of the most prominent in the city at the time.[92] The building also housed the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles from its establishment from 1947 to 1952.[93]

East side edit

  • Blackstone Building (not to be confused with the later Blackstone Department Store building at 901 S. Broadway), 318–322 S. Broadway (1907),[94] housed Blackstone's Department Store from 1907 to 1917, as well as the Los Angeles County Library and the Cozy Theater. Originally 5 stories, now 3.[95]

  • O. T. Johnson Building (1902, John Parkinson, Romanesque, 7 stories),[96] 356–364 S. Broadway, NE corner of 4th/Broadway.[97][98] All but two floors have been removed.[45]

Fourth to Fifth streets edit

West side edit

 
Terrazzo floor of former Newberry's five and dime

East side edit

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    Judson C. Rives Building (1907) at #424
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    Bumiller Building at #430, home to the Bon Marché department store in 1906
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    NE corner 5th/Broadway, early 1920s, before the Chester Williams Bldg. replaced the Victorian building
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    Chester Williams Bldg., NE corner 5th/Broadway
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    Detail, Chester Williams Bldg.
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    Chester Williams Bldg., Broadway side
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    Ironwork, Chester Williams Bldg.
  • Perla on Broadway, a modern 35-story condominium tower completed in 2022, 400 S. Broadway
  • Site of first Thrifty Drug Store (razed), 412 S. Broadway

  • Chester Williams Building (1926, Curlett & Beelman, 12 stories), 215 W. 5th St. (NE corner of Broadway), replaced a Victorian building with Sun Drug Co. and Weigel-Rixon Clothes Shops

Fifth to Sixth streets edit

West side edit

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    West side of Broadway south from 5th St., Walker's department store, Los Angeles Railway "Yellow Cars", 1927 postcard
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    View north from 6th St. towards the 500 and 400 blocks of Broadway, west at left, east at right, c.1906. The new Parmelee-Dohrmann flagship (1906) at #436–444 Broadway is visible at center.
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    Schulte-United Building (1928)
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    F. & W. Grand Silver Store (Hartfield's) Building (1931)
  • Fifth Street Store/Walker's department store bldg. (1927, architect Alexander Curlett), SW corner of 5th, 501 S. Broadway. The store was known by various names: 1905–1909: Steele, Faris, & Walker Co.; 1909–1925: The Fifth Street Store;[99][100] 1926–1946: Walker's;[101] 1946–1953 Milliron's;[101] 1953–1959: Ohrbach's-Downtown.[102]

  • Schulte United Building (1928), 529 S. Broadway

East side edit

  • The Title Guarantee Block (1913, Morgan, Walls and Morgan), 500 S. Broadway, SE corner of 5th, now called the Jewelry Trades Building
  • Pettebone Building (opened 1905, architect Robert Brown Young), 510-512 S. Broadway
  • Roxie Theatre (1931, orig. 1,600 seats), 518 S. Broadway – Movie palace – The Roxie was built in 1932—the last of the movie palaces built on Broadway. The Roxie had a seating capacity of 1,600 when it opened and was noted for its Art Deco or Zigzag Moderne style, including its stepped roofline, angular grillwork, chevron ornament, and terrazzo sunburst in the sidewalk. The theater's sleek Streamline Moderne ticket booth was removed when the theater was converted to retail use.[2]
  • Cameo Theater – (1910, 900 seats), 528 S. Broadway — Nickelodeon – The Cameo opened in 1910 with a seating capacity of 775. Designed by Alfred Rosenheim in a Renaissance Revival style, the Cameo was originally known as Clune's Broadway. Until it closed in 1991, it was the oldest continuously operating movie theater in California.[2] The Cameo has been converted into a swap meet-type market.[104]
  • Arcade Theater (1910, orig. 1,450 seats), 534 S. Broadway – English-music-hall-style theater – The Arcade opened in 1910 as a vaudeville house that was part of the Pantages vaudeville circuit. The Arcade was designed by Morgan & Walls in the Beaux Arts style with tripartite vertical division of the facade.[2] Theater has been closed since 1992. Currently used as retail space.
  • Broadway Arcade (Spring Arcade Building), 540 S. Broadway
  • Silverwoods Building (1920, Walker and Eisen), 556-8 S. Broadway, northeast corner of 6th Street. Housed Silverwoods, a specialty department store for apparel, flagship for a large regional chain. 5 stories.[94]

Sixth to Seventh streets edit

West side edit

Southwest corner of Sixth and Broadway edit
  • H. Jevne Company Building, 603 S. Broadway, 1906-7, Parkinson & Bergstrom, still standing. H. Jevne & Co. was one of the city's most prominent grocer, and this new location complemented the one on Spring Street. Prior to 1906, the two-story frame Norton Block (of Major John H. Norton) stood on the site.[105]
600 block of Broadway, west side edit
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    W. side of Broadway between 6th and 7th c.1907–9. Bullock's at left, before it had expanded northward (to the right)
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    W. side of mid-600 block, Broadway, c.1915. Bullock's at left (NE corner of 7th). Central Dept. Store Bldg. (#609–619) at right
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    Crop of postcard of former Central Department Store and H. Jevne buildings, 1920s
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    Contemporary view of the Los Angeles Theatre (#609–619)

Next to what is now the Jevne building on the south at 609–619 S. Broadway were several buildings in succession:

  • The Hotel Palms, a leading hotel of the city, renovated and repurposed in 1906-7 for use as the Central Department Store.[106]
  • The Central Department Store, architect Samuel Tilden Norton, three floors and basement with a total of 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2), opened on March 25, 1907,[107] but went bankrupt the next year.
  • The New Paris Cloak and Suit Emporium at 609–11 advertised in 1915
  • From 1921 or 1922 through 1927,[108] the prominent Myer Siegel clothing store was located in part of the building (#617–619).
  • Los Angeles Theatre – (1931, 2,000 seats), 615 S. Broadway, Movie Palace – The Los Angeles opened in 1931 for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights.[25] It had a seating capacity just short of 2,000. The theater was designed by S. Charles Lee and S. Tilden Norton in the French Baroque style, and was modeled on San Francisco's Fox Theater. The Los Angeles included the latest technological features when it opened, including an electric monitor of available seats, blue neon floor lights, a restaurant, a children's playroom, soundproof crying rooms, smoking room with built-in cigarette lighters, a walnut-paneled lounge with a secondary screen on which a periscope-like system of prisms relayed the film.[2] The ladies' powder room was lined with mirrors and vanities, and the toilet stalls were each done in a different kind of marble and each toilet bowl of a different pastel shade.[25] In 1988, the Los Angeles Times called it "a movie house for the gods, even in its present dusty state".[28] Columnist Jack Smith wrote that the Los Angeles Theater was "palatial beyond the dreams of a prince" with a lobby that suggested "nothing less than the glory of Versailles.".[25] Aerosmith's video for "Jaded" was filmed throughout the theater. It is owned by the Broadway Theatre Group, and continues to be used as a performing arts venue.[109] Current capacity: 1,931.
  • former S. H. Kress five and dime, 621-3-5 S. Broadway
  • St. Vincent's Jewelry Mart, formerly Bullock's dept. store, NW corner of Seventh and Broadway
East side edit
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    1923, view north from 7th St. to east side of 600 block, S. Broadway. Note Mullen & Bluett store.
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    600 block, east side, with Palace Theatre
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    Walter P. Story Building (1909), SE corner of 6th, once home to Mullen & Bluett
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    Detail, Walter P. Story Building
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    Desmond's building in 2014
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    Clifton's Cafeteria in 2005, before its mid-century fronting was removed
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    Interior of Clifton's Cafeteria
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    Clifton's Cafeteria
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    Palace Theater

  • Palace Theatre (1911, G. Albert Lansburgh, Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, 2,200 seats originally, 1,068 seats today), 630 S. Broadway,– vaudeville theater and movie palace – The Palace opened in 1911 with a seating capacity of 2,200. It was an Orpheum Circuit (chain) vaudeville theater from 1911 to 1926 and is the oldest remaining Orpheum theater in the United States. The structure was based on a Florentine early Renaissance palazzo. The brick facade includes multi-colored terra-cotta swags and four panels depicting the muses of vaudeville sculpted by Domingo Mora.[2] It is also owned by the Broadway Theatre Group.[109]

Seventh to Eighth streets edit

West side edit

 
State Theater
  • State Theatre (1921, 2,450 seats), 703 S. Broadway, – Vaudeville theater and movie palace – The State opened in 1921 with a seating capacity of 2,450.[114] The theater offered both film and vaudeville when it opened. Judy Garland performed at the theater as part of the Gumm Sisters in 1929. Designed by Charles Weeks and William Day, the 12-story Loew's State is said to be the largest brick-clad structure in Los Angeles.[114] The theater is also noted for the seated Buddha/Billiken figure, as a good luck charm, located in a niche above the proscenium arch.[2] The exterior has an elaborate "silver platter" chased ornamentation above the ground story.[115] In 1998, Metropolitan Theaters stopped showing movies at the State and leased the space to the Universal Church.[30] As of 2015 the State is owned by the Broadway Theatre Group and is leased by the Cathedral of Faith for use as a church.[116]
  • F.W. Woolworth Building (1920), 719 S. Broadway, currently houses Ross Dress for Less
 
Reich and Lièvre store at 737-745 S. Broadway depicted in 1917 ad for store opening
  • Isaac Bros. Building, home of Reich and Lièvre “cloak and suit” emporium (women's apparel), 1917-ca. 1927, 739-745 Broadway
  • Merritt Building (1915), 761 S. Broadway, (NW corner of 8th)

East side edit

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    Hotel Lankershim (demolished)
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    Globe Theater
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    Panoramic view from the Hotel Lankershim, showing 7th Street, Broadway, and Spring Street, ca.1905-1907
  • Site of Hotel Lankershim (1905, demolished), 700 S. Broadway (SE corner 7th St.)

Globe Theatre (1913, 1,900 seats) – Legitimate theater – Located at 744 S. Broadway, the Globe opened in 1913 as the Morosco Theatre, with a seating capacity of 782. Built for impresario Oliver Morosco and designed by the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls & Morgan, it was used for full-scale live dramatic theater. It was converted into a movie theater during the Great Depression and later served as a Spanish-language movie theater. The building was converted into a swap meet in 1987.[2] As of June 2014, construction to restore it to use as an entertainment venue is ongoing.[117] The restored marquee was relit June 24, 2014.[118] The Globe is now a multipurpose space for music, theatrical events and films. Current capacity: 2,000.

Eighth to Ninth streets edit

West side edit

East side edit

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    Tower Theatre at #802, SE corner 8th/Broadway
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    Rialto Theater at #812
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    Platt Building at #830
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    Orpheum Theatre at #842
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    Ninth and Broadway Building, #850, NE corner 9th/Broadway
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    Ninth and Broadway Building, detail

Ninth to Tenth streets edit

West side edit

 
Blackstone's Department Store building
United Artists Theater edit
 
Ace Hotel and United Artists Theatre
  • United Artists Theater (now The Theatre at Ace Hotel) – Movie palace – Located at 933 S. Broadway, the United Artists opened in 1927 with a seating capacity of 2,214. It was the showcase for movies from the United Artists group created in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. The theater was designed by C. Howard Crane, with Walker & Eisen, in a Gothic style inspired by a church in Segovia, Spain. The columns feature terra cotta capitals carved with film and theater themed grotesques. The interior includes a series of frescoes and murals by the firm of Anthony Heinsbergen.[2] In 1990, the United Artists Theater was restored by Gene Scott's L.A. University Church; Scott called on his television flock to come to Los Angeles to help with the restoration.[126] Scott's famous "Jesus Saves" sign was placed on the back side of the building to avoid interfering with the original facade. In 2013 the upper floors of the building were renovated into a boutique hotel, the Ace Los Angeles; the auditorium has been returned to use as a concert venue and theater.

South of Olympic Boulevard (originally Tenth Street) edit

West side edit

  • Los Angeles Examiner building, SW corner 11th
  • Athens Park, 124th to El Segundo Blvd.
  • Site of the Globe Department Store, 51st and Broadway[127]

East side edit

Other surviving theaters adjacent to Broadway edit

  • Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre – Vaudeville theater and movie palace – Located at 401 W. 7th St (northwest corner of South Hill and West 7th St). Opening on August 17, 1920, it was originally called the Pantages Theatre, but was renamed Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre in 1930 after the Hollywood Pantages Theatre was opened.[130][131] The exterior has an imposing domed corner tower, flanked by twin facades on 7th and Hill.[132] Later in the 1960s, it was known as the Warrens Theatre.[131] It currently houses a jewelry store.
  • Olympic Theatre – Movie palace – Located at 313 W. 8th St, half a block from S. Broadway, it originally opened in 1927 as Bard's 8th Street Theatre, converted from a restaurant. For a time, it had a second entrance on Broadway. After a period as a chandelier store, COS, a higher-end brand of H&M, began remodeling the store in 2016.[133][123]
  • Mayan Theater – Vaudeville theater and movie palace – Located at 1014 South Hill Street. Opened in August 1927 and now designated a Historic Cultural Monument, the Mayan is currently used as a nightclub. Current capacity: 1,491
  • Belasco Theatre – Legitimate theater – Located at 1050 South Hill Street, adjacent to the Mayan. Built by the Belasco brothers, and designed by Morgan, Walls and Clements. It served as a church from 1950 to 1987, renovations were completed in 2011 to modernize the sound and lighting systems.[134] Currently hosts services for the Los Angeles campus of Hillsong Church. Current capacity: 1,601.

Street grid edit

South of Third Street edit

Landmarks are shown on the following street grid of the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles.

Abbreviations and notes edit

For the area north of Third Street, see Victorian Downtown Los Angeles
For the area to the west of Hill Street, see Financial District, Los Angeles
H
I
L
L

S
T. 		  Irvine Byrne Block/
now Pan American Lofts (1895) 		B
R
O
A
D
W
A
Y 		  Douglas Bldg. (1899) S
P
R
I
N
G

S
T
R
E
E
T 		Stimson Bldg. (1893–1963)   M
A
I
N

S
T
R
E
E
T 		    L
O
S

A
N
G
E
L
E
S

S
T
R
E
E
T
THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST.
—Million Dollar Theatre —Bradbury Bldg. (1893)
 Ronald Reagan State Bldg. (1990) Toy District
Angels Flight Homer Laughlin Building (1898):
Now Grand Central Market.
formerly Coulter's, Ville de Paris 		Broadway Spring Center parking structure (1990) Round House
Jacoby Bros. DS* (#331–5; 1900–1935)
—Grant Bldg. (1898) 		Trustee Building (#340, 1905 PB)
—O. T. Johnson Block (#350, 1895 It RBY)
—O. T. Johnson Bldg. (#356, 1902 JB Rom) 		parking lot Hellman Bldg. (1902)
FOURTH ST. FOURTH ST. FOURTH ST. FOURTH ST. FOURTH ST.
The Broadway DS/
Junípero Serra State Office Bldg. #2 		vacant parking lot Continental Bldg. (1902) San Fernando Bldg. (1906 IRR) Toy District
Subway
Terminal
Bldg./
Now "Metro 417" 		—Hotel Clark
—Occidental Hotel
—Boos Bros. Cafeteria
—St. Clarenden Hotel 		Judson C. Rive Bldg. (1907) 419 S. Spring
435 S. Spring 		Stowell/El Dorado Hotel/
El Dorado Lofts (1913)
Dog Park
Title Guarantee Bldg. (1930) Metropolitan Bldg. (1913)/Newberry's 5&10¢/Now Fallas Paredes DS and lofts Chester Williams Bldg. (1926) Crocker Bank/
Spring Arts Tower (1915) 		Title Insurance and Trust Company Building/
Trust Bldg. (1928) 		Rowan Bldg (1912) King Edward Hotel (1906 P&B)
FIFTH ST. FIFTH ST. FIFTH ST. FIFTH ST. FIFTH ST.
Pershing Square Pershing Square station (Metro Rail) Fifth Street Store DS Roxie Theatre
Cameo Theater
Arcade Theatre
(now retail) 		Hotel Alexandria (1906) Security Trust and Savings Bank/
Security Bldg. Lofts (1907) 		Hotel Rosslyn Annex Pershing Hotel/
Pershing Apts. (1889) 		Baltimore Hotel (1910)
Spring Arcade Los Angeles Theater Center (1916) Parking Structure (#545) Topaz Apts.
Paramount Theatre/
International Jewelry Center 		Swelldom DS Silverwoods DS/
Broadway Jewelry Mart 		Pacific Southwest Bank (1910) Santa Fe Bldg. (1906)
SIXTH ST. SIXTH ST. SIXTH ST. SIXTH ST. SIXTH ST.
—Consolidated Reatly Bldg./
California Jewelry Mart (1908/1935)
—Sun Realty Bldg./
Los Angeles Jewelry Center (1931)
—Harris & Frank Bldg./
Wholesale Jewelry Exchange (1925) 		—Western Jewelry Mart
—William Fox Bldg.
(Fox Jewelry Plaza) (1932) 		Los Angeles Theatre —Mullen & Bluett DS/ Walter P. Story Bldg.
—Desmond's Bldg.
—Palace Theatre
—J. E. Carr Bldg.
—Harris & Frank 1947-1980 		Hotel Hayward
E. F. Hutton (1931)
California Canadian Bank (1923)
Barclays Bank (1919) 		United California Bank
Stock Exchange
Mortgage Guaranty Building (1913)
Banks & Huntley Bldg. (1930) 		—Pacific Electric Bdng. (1905)
—Cecil Hotel (1924)
Warner Bros. (a.k.a. Pantages, Warren) Theatre (1920)
Now Jewelry
Theater Center 		Bullock's DS/
St. Vincent Jewelry Center 		Bank of Italy/
Bank of America/
SB Lofts (1924) 		Bartlett Bldg. (1911)
SEVENTH ST. SEVENTH ST. SEVENTH ST. SEVENTH ST. SEVENTH ST.
Foreman & Clark DS/
Foreman & Clark Bldg. (1928, Curlett & Beelman, Art Deco and Neo-Gothic) 		State Theatre —Hotel Lankershim
—Globe Theatre 		Dearden's DS
Garfield Bldg. (1930) Union Bank & Trust Company Bldg.
Union Lofts (1922) 		Griffin on Spring Apts. (2018) Great Republic Lofts (1923)
EIGHTH ST. EIGHTH ST. EIGHTH ST. EIGHTH ST. EIGHTH ST.
RKO Hillstreet
Theatre
(1922-1963)/
820 Olive/
825 South Hill (res.) 		Hamburger's DS (1908-1923)/
May Company DS (1923-1986)/
May Company Building 		Tower Theatre (1927 BR)
Rialto Theatre (1917 AD/CR)
Orpheum Theatre (1926 BA) 		Lane Mortgage Bldg. (1923) National City Tower (1924)[135]

[136]

—California Theatre (1918–1990 BA) 		Gray Bldg. (#824)
Coast Fed. Savings Bldg. (1926) Parking lot
Alexan tower (planned) 		Eastern Columbia Bldg. (1930) City Club Bldg. (1925)[137] Harris Newmark Bldg. (1926 RR C&B) Cooper Bldg. (1926 C&B)
NINTH ST. NINTH ST. NINTH ST. NINTH ST.
small retail May Co. Garage Bldg.(1926) —Blackstone's DS (1907–1917)—United Artists Theatre/
Ace Hotel 		Gerry Building (1947 SM)
South Park by Windsor Apts. Broadway Palace Apts. (2017)
OLYMPIC BL. (formerly TENTH ST.) OLYMPIC BL. (formerly TENTH ST.)
Mayan Theater
Belasco Theatre 		Broadway Palace Apts. (2017)
Western Pacific Bldg. (1925)
White Log Coffee Shop[138] Los Angeles Railway HQ/
Hoxton Hotel (1925)
ELEVENTH ST. ELEVENTH ST. ELEVENTH ST. ELEVENTH ST.
Proposed 43-story Sky Trees res. tower[139] Herald-Examiner Bldg. (1914) Commercial Club/
Proper Hotel (1926) 		Harris Building (1923 BA)


Table of former department stores on Broadway and 7th streets edit

Opened Left Moved or closed? Store Floor area (gross) Location Architects Current use
SPRING ST. BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND
1884 1898 Moved to B'way Coulter's Hollenbeck Block, SW corner 2nd & Spring Historic Broadway station
1888 1908 Moved to 8th/B'way Hamburger's Phillips Block, Franklin & Spring Burgess J. Reeve Site of City Hall
1889 1910 Moved to B'way Mullen & Bluett 101–5 N. Spring Empty lot
1891 1900 Moved to 3rd/B'way Jacoby Bros. 128–134(–138) N. Spring at Court Site of City Hall
1895 ? The Hub Bullard Block, Spring at Court Morgan & Walls Site of City Hall
BROADWAY north of 4th St.
1893 1898 Moved to 317 B’way Ville de Paris[140]
(A. Fusenot Co.) 		Potomac Block, 221-3 S. Broadway Block, Curlett & Eisen added to Coulter's late 1907, demolished 1958, now a parking lot
1895 1915 Moved to 7th St. Boston Dry Goods
(J.W. Robinson Co.) 		237–241 S. Broadway Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt
(architects of the Bradbury Building) 		Parking lot
1898 1905 Moved to 200 block of B'way Coulter's (1898–1905) 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street[141]
Homer Laughlin Building 		John B. Parkinson became Ville de Paris
Now Grand Central Market
1899[142] 1935-6 Moved to 605 B'way[143][144] Jacoby Bros. 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) 331-333-335 S. Broadway John B. Parkinson[145] Was "Boston Store" in late 1930s.[146] Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed.
1899 ? Moved to 455 B'way then 617 B'way I. Magnin/
Myer Siegel 		Irvine Byrne Block,
251 S. Broadway[147]		 Sumner Hunt Wedding chapel
1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. Coulter's 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m2)[148] Potomac Block: 225-7-9 S. Broadway through to 224-6-8 S. Hill St. Late 1907 added 219-221-223 S. Broadway to store. Block, Curlett & Eisen demolished, site of parking lot
1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. Ville de Paris 96,000 sq ft (8,900 m2)[citation needed] 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street[141]
Homer Laughlin Building 		John B. Parkinson Grand Central Market
1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. J. J. Haggarty Co. “New York Store’ 337–9 S. Broadway Independent retail. Only 2 stories remain.
1909 ? ? J. M. Hale (Hale’s) 341-343-345 S. Broadway[149] retail, top floors were removed
BROADWAY south of 4th St.
1896 1973 Moved to B'way Plaza The Broadway Dept. Store[150] 1924, 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m2)[151] SW corner 4th & Broadway, later through to Hill Junipero Serra State Office Building
1904 ? ? Silverwoods 1920: 115,420 sq ft (10,723 m2)[152] 556 S. Broadway (NE corner of 6th) Broadway Jewelry Mart
1905 ? Closed Fifth Street Store
(Steele, Faris, & Walker Co.)
Later called Walker's 		1917: 278,640 sq ft (25,887 m2)[153] SW corner 5th & Broadway Replaced existing store with new building in 1917[153]
Building later housed Ohrbach's
1906 1986 Moved to FIGat7th Hamburger's
After 1925: May Company 		1906: 482,475 sq ft (44,823.4 m2)[154][155]
1930, >1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2)[156]		 SW corner 8th & Broadway
by 1930, entire block 8th/9th/Broadway/Hill 		Under renovation to become tech campus
1907 1983 Closed, opened 1986 at FIGat7th Bullock's 1907: 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2)
1934: 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m2)[157]		 NW corner 7th & Broadway
by 1934, most of the block 6th/7th/Broadway/Hill 		Parkinson & Bergstrom St. Vincents Jewelry Mart
1907 1908 Central Department Store[158] 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2), [159] 609–619 S. Broadway Samuel Tilden Norton Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre
1910 1960s Mullen & Bluett 610 S. Broadway
(Walter P. Story Bldg.)[160]		 Morgan, Walls & Clements Mixed-use
1917 Blackstone's 118,800 sq ft (11,040 m2)[161] 901 S. Broadway (SE corner 9th) John Parkinson Building became The Famous,
now residential, retail
1924 1972[162] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Desmond's 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2)[111] 616 S. Broadway A. C. Martin[163] Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar.[111]
1930 1957[164] Eastern Columbia 1930: 275,650 sq ft (25,609 m2)[165] (expanded through to Hill St. in 1950)[166] 849 S. Broadway through to Hill Claud Beelman luxury condos
1936[144] 1938[167] Company liquidated Jacoby Bros. 605 S. Broadway[144] became a branch of Zukor's (1940),[168] now mixed-use
1947 1980[169] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Harris & Frank 2nd downtown location 644 S. Broadway
(Joseph E. Carr Bldg.) 		Robert Brown Young[170]
SEVENTH STREET
1915 1993 Abandoned Downtown L.A. J. W. Robinson's 1915: 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2)[171]
1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[172]		 7th, Hope & Grand Noonan & Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry/Allison & Allison (1934 remodel) Mixed-use
1917 1933 B. H. Dyas liquidated Ville de Paris, from 1919 B. H. Dyas 420 W. 7th (SE corner Olive) Dodd and Richards L.A. Jewelry Mart
1917 1938 Moved to Miracle Mile Coulter's 500 W. 7th (SW corner Olive) Dodd and Richards Mixed-use
1917 1963[173] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Haggarty's Brockman Building,
7th & Grand[174][175][86][176]
 George D. Barnett
(of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett) 		Apartments
1926 1984[177] Barker Bros. Abandoned Downtown L.A. 23 acres (1,000,000 sq ft; 93,000 m2)[178] 818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa) Curlett and Beelman Offices
1973 open* The Broadway 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2)[179] Broadway Plaza 750 W. 7th (Hope to Flower) Charles Luckman Macy's
1986 1996 Became duplicate Macy's, closed Bullock's Seventh Market Place now FIGat7th Jon Jerde[180] Gold's Gym (level M1), Target (M2), Zara (M3)
1986 2009a Became duplicate Macy's, closed May Company Nordstrom Rack (level M1), Target (M2), H&M (M3)

aas Macy's


Public transportation edit

The Los Angeles Metro Rail's Historic Broadway station is an underground light rail station near the intersection of 2nd and Broadway,[181][182] which is served by the E Line east to East Los Angeles and west to Santa Monica, and on the A Line northeast to Union Station, Pasadena, and Azusa and south to Long Beach.[183]

Metro J Line bus rapid transit (BRT) has 5 stations adjacent to Broadway in South Los Angeles: 37th Street/USC, Slauson, Manchester/I-110, Harbor Freeway, and Rosecrans. These stations are along the Harbor Transitway, a dedicated busway between Downtown L.A. (Adams Blvd.) and the Harbor Gateway, near Carson, in the median of the Harbor Freeway (I-110), just west of Broadway. J Line BRT runs as far south as San Pedro and as far northeast as El Monte.

Metro Local bus line 45 serves most of the length of Broadway, between Lincoln Heights through Downtown to the Harbor Freeway Station. Local routes 4, 30, and 40 serve portions of Broadway downtown.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sandra A.B. Levis. "Broadway Historic Theater District: A walking tour sponsored by the Los Angeles Conservancy" (PDF). Los Angeles Conservancy.
  3. ^ "City In Brief". Los Angeles Times. September 6, 1889. p. 8. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
  4. ^ "Other 3 -- No Title". Los Angeles Times. February 18, 1890. p. 4. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
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Broadway until 1890 Fort Street is a thoroughfare in Los Angeles County California United States The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles was the city s main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places NRHP 2 With twelve movie palaces located along a six block stretch of Broadway it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States Broadway Theater andCommercial District NRHP Broadway Theater andEntertainment District City of Los Angeles U S National Register of Historic PlacesU S Historic districtBroadway looking north towards the historic Theater and Commercial District from Hoxton Hotel Roof 11th St September 2020Location300 849 S BroadwayLos Angeles CaliforniaCoordinates34 2 48 N 118 15 4 W 34 04667 N 118 25111 W 34 04667 118 25111ArchitectMultipleArchitectural styleEarly Commercial Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals Art DecoNRHP reference No 79000484 1 Added to NRHPMay 9 1979BroadwayLos Angeles TheatreMaintained byBureau of Street Services City of L A DPW County of L A DPWLength17 75 mi 28 57 km LocationLos AngelesSouth endMain Street in CarsonMajorjunctionsSR 91 in Carson I 105 in South Los Angeles I 10 in Downtown US 101 in Downtown I 5 in Lincoln HeightsNortheast endMission Road in Los AngelesConstructionInauguration1890 Contents 1 Route 2 History 2 1 Founding and extension 2 2 Los Angeles central commercial and entertainment street 2 2 1 Retail hub 3 Theater District 3 1 Highest concentration of movie palaces in the world 3 2 Revitalization by Spanish language cinema 3 3 Preservation and renovation efforts 4 Broadway since 2008 5 Buildings and sites 5 1 North of Hollywood Freeway 5 2 Hollywood Freeway to Temple 5 3 Temple and Broadway 5 3 1 Northwest corner of Temple and Broadway 5 3 2 Southeast corner of Temple and Broadway Pound Cake Hill west side of New High St 5 3 2 1 Realignment of Spring Street 1925 5 3 3 Southwest corner of Temple and Broadway 5 4 First and Broadway 5 4 1 Northeast corner of First and Broadway 5 4 2 Northwest corner of First and Broadway 5 4 3 Southeast corner of First and Broadway and east side of 100 block 5 4 4 Southwest corner of First and Broadway 5 5 Second and Broadway 5 5 1 Northeast corner of Second and Broadway 5 5 2 Southwest corner of Second and Broadway and the west side of the 200 block 5 5 2 1 Coulter s complex Potomac and Bicknell blocks 5 5 2 1 1 Potomac Block 5 5 2 1 2 Bicknell Block 5 5 2 2 Further south on Broadway 5 5 3 Southeast corner and east side of Broadway from 2nd to 3rd 5 6 Third and Broadway 5 6 1 Northwest corner of Third and Broadway 5 6 2 Northeast corner of Third and Broadway 5 6 3 Southwest corner of Third and Broadway 5 6 4 Southeast corner of Third and Broadway 5 7 Third to Fourth 5 7 1 West side 5 7 2 East side 5 8 Fourth to Fifth streets 5 8 1 West side 5 8 2 East side 5 9 Fifth to Sixth streets 5 9 1 West side 5 9 2 East side 5 10 Sixth to Seventh streets 5 10 1 West side 5 10 1 1 Southwest corner of Sixth and Broadway 5 10 1 2 600 block of Broadway west side 5 10 1 3 East side 5 11 Seventh to Eighth streets 5 11 1 West side 5 11 2 East side 5 12 Eighth to Ninth streets 5 12 1 West side 5 12 2 East side 5 13 Ninth to Tenth streets 5 13 1 West side 5 13 1 1 United Artists Theater 5 14 South of Olympic Boulevard originally Tenth Street 5 14 1 West side 5 14 2 East side 5 15 Other surviving theaters adjacent to Broadway 6 Street grid 6 1 South of Third Street 6 2 Abbreviations and notes 7 Table of former department stores on Broadway and 7th streets 8 Public transportation 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksRoute editSouth Broadway s southern terminus is Main Street just north of the San Diego Freeway I 405 in Carson From there it runs 10 miles 16 km north through Athens and South Los Angeles to Downtown Los Angeles at Olympic Blvd entering downtown s Historic Core in which the buildings lining Broadway form the Broadway Theater and Commercial District Crossing 3rd Street Broadway passes through the Civic Center including Grand Park After crossing the US 101 Santa Ana Freeway signs read North Broadway as it enters Chinatown It then curves northeast passing through old railyards crosses the Golden State Fwy I 5 and heads due east to its terminus at Mission Road in Lincoln Heights History editFounding and extension edit Broadway one of the oldest streets in the city was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord and named Fort Street Fort Street began at the south side of Fort Moore Hill a block north of Temple Street at Sand Street later California Street In 1890 the name of Fort Street from 1st Street to 10th Street was changed to Broadway The rest of Fort Street from California Street to 1st Street was changed to North Broadway 3 4 Proposal for opening Broadway through to Buena Vista Street now North Broadway and extending the street south into what was then part of Main Street below Tenth Street in order to give a continuous wide thoroughfare from the southern city limits to the Eastside was made as early as February 1891 5 The Broadway Tunnel under Fort Moore Hill was opened in 1901 extending North Broadway to Buena Vista Street at Bellevue Avenue later Sunset Boulevard now Cesar Chavez Avenue A section of Broadway in South Los Angeles was originally named Moneta Avenue until 1923 6 In 1909 construction on a bridge across the Los Angeles River was begun to connect Buena Vista Street to Downey Avenue which ran from the river to Mission Road The names of Buena Vista and Downey were then changed to North Broadway 7 8 9 but not without significant objections from affected residents and landowners 10 11 12 13 The bridge which continued to be referred to as the Buena Vista Street Bridge for a good while was opened to traffic in late September 1911 14 Los Angeles central commercial and entertainment street edit See also History of Retail in Southern California For more than 50 years Broadway from 1st Street to Olympic Boulevard was the main commercial street of Los Angeles and one of its premier theater and movie palace districts as well It contains a vast number of historic buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places Prior to the turn of the 20th century the city s Central Business District was further north along Spring and Main streets between the Plaza and 2nd Street In 1895 J W Robinson s opened what was then considered a very large and impressive four story department store at 239 S Broadway 15 16 signaling of the shift over the next decade and a half of the main shopping district to Broadway below 2nd Street Retail hub edit nbsp Broadway and Seventh looking north 1914 From around 1905 through the 1950s Broadway was considered the center of the city where residents went to ornate movie palaces and live theaters and shopped at major department stores and shops See the Table of department stores on Broadway and Seventh streets below The square footage of the four largest department stores alone Bullock s at 806 000 sq ft 74 900 m2 The Broadway at 577 000 sq ft 53 600 m2 17 May Co at over 1 000 000 sq ft 93 000 m2 18 and J W Robinson s 7th St at Hope at 623 700 sq ft 57 940 m2 19 20 totaled over three million square feet the size of American Dream Meadowlands America s largest mall today Among dozens of significant buildings from that era are the Bradbury Building Ace Hotel Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Examiner building designed by Julia Morgan Some of the movie theaters on the street fell into disuse and disrepair some were replaced with parking lots but many have been repurposed and or restored The department stores closed in the 1970s and 1980s but Broadway has been the premier shopping destination for working class Latinos for decades 21 Theater District editNRHP refers to the district as the Broadway Theater and Commercial District while the City of Los Angeles Planning Department refers to the Broadway Theater and Entertainment District 22 Highest concentration of movie palaces in the world editStretching for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets the district includes 12 movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931 By 1931 the district had the highest concentration of cinemas in the world with seating capacity for more than 15 000 patrons Broadway was the hub of L A s entertainment scene a place where screen goddesses and guys in fedoras rubbed elbows with Army nurses and aircraft pioneers 23 In 2006 the Los Angeles Times wrote There was a time long ago when the streets of downtown Los Angeles were awash in neon thanks to a confluence of movie theaters the world had never seen before Dozens of theaters screened Hollywood s latest fare played host to star studded premieres and were filled nightly with thousands of moviegoers In those days before World War II downtown L A was the movie capital of the world 24 Columnist Jack Smith called it the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America 25 Smith recalled growing up a mile from Broadway and spending his Saturdays in the theaters I remember walking into those opulent interiors surrounded by the glory of the Renaissance or the age of Baroque and spending two or three hours in the dream world of the movies When I came out again the sky blazed the heat bounced off the sidewalk traffic sounds filled the street I was back in the hard reality of the Depression 25 Because Broadway has been used as a filming location for decades many of these theatre marquees can be seen in classic Hollywood films including Safety Last 1923 D O A 1950 The Omega Man 1971 Blade Runner 1982 and The Artist 2011 26 27 Revitalization by Spanish language cinema edit In the years after World War II the district began to decline as first run movie goers shifted to the movie palaces in Hollywood in Westwood Village and later to suburban multiplexes After World War II as Anglo moviegoers moved to the suburbs many of the Broadway movie palaces became venues for Spanish language movies and variety shows In 1988 the Los Angeles Times noted that without the Hispanic community Broadway would be dead 28 Jack Smith wrote that Broadway had been rescued and revitalized by the Latino renaissance 25 Preservation and renovation efforts edit The district has been the subject of preservation and restoration efforts since the 1980s In 1987 the Los Angeles Conservancy started a program called Last Remaining Seats in which the old movie palaces were opened each summer to show classic Hollywood movies 23 29 In 1994 the Conservancy s associate director Gregg Davidson noted When we started this the naysayers said no one will go downtown to an old theater to see an old movie in the middle of the summer but we get a number of people who have never seen a movie in a theater with a balcony The older people go for nostalgia And the movie people seeing a classic film on a big screen is a different experience 29 After attending a Conservancy screening one writer noted The other night I went to the movies and was transported to a world of powdered wigs and hoop skirts a rococo fantasy of gilded cherubs and crystal chandeliers And then the film started 23 Despite preservation efforts many of the theaters have been converted to other uses including flea markets and churches The Broadway movie palaces fell victim to a number of circumstances including changing demographics and tastes a downtown location that was perceived as dangerous at night and high maintenance costs for aging facilities With the closure of the State Theater in 1998 the Orpheum and the Palace were the only two still screening films 30 In 2006 the Los Angeles Times wrote Of all of L A s many hidden gems maybe none is as sparkling nor as hidden as the Broadway theater district downtown 23 Bemoaning the possible loss of such gems the same writer noted L A gave birth to the movies To lose the astonishing nurseries where the medium grew up would be tragic 23 Broadway since 2008 editIn 2008 the City of Los Angeles launched a 40 million campaign to revitalize the Broadway district known as the Bringing Back Broadway campaign Some Latino merchants in the district expressed concern that the campaign was an effort to spread the largely Anglo gentrification taking hold in other parts of downtown to an area that has become the city s leading Latino shopping district 31 A worker at one of the district s bridal shops noted On one side I like the idea The only thing is that I don t think they want our types of businesses 31 The Downtown s real estate revitalization using the City s adaptive reuse ordinance that makes it easier for developers to convert outmoded and or vacant office and commercial buildings into residential buildings has reached the Broadway Historic District It includes the transformation of the United Artists Theater office tower into the Ace Hotel Los Angeles and restoration of its movie palace The Bringing Back Broadway commission is working on further reviving the landmark Los Angeles boulevard in the historic district Led by City Councilman Jose Huizar the commission has recommended widening sidewalks eliminating traffic lanes constructing new parking structures and bringing back streetcar service reminiscent of the street s past 32 A pedestrian friendly project finished up in December 2014 that widened the sidewalks and replaced the parking lane with planters chairs and round cafe tables with bright red umbrellas The Great Streets Initiative seeks to bolster the street level health of the city by making several dozen boulevards more hospitable to pedestrians cyclists and small businesses Mayor Eric Garcetti said the effort represents a shift from the way that our neighborhoods have been planned in Los Angeles with a new focus on walkability and transit 33 Broadway retail is transitioning from a broad mix of stores catering to Hispanic immigrants and a burgeoning sneaker and streetwear retail cluster has emerged from 4th to 9th streets Sneaker Row 34 Retail in and around the Eastern Columbia located at the intersection of 9th Street amp Broadway has proliferated in recent years with the opening of Acne Studios Oak NYC Aesop Tanner Goods BNKR Austere A P C and Urban Outfitters located in the Rialto Theater Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No 472 35 36 Buildings and sites editAll landmarks in geographic order north to south North of Hollywood Freeway edit nbsp Broadway Tunnel at Fort Moore Hill built 1901 southern entrance at lower right with Los Angeles High School which stood on Fort Moore Hill 1891 1917 upper left nbsp East Gate of New Chinatown 943 N BroadwayLittle Joe s razed 904 N Broadway Chinatown Site of Broadway Tunnel 1901 1941 demolished below Fort Moore Hill leveled between today s Temple St and Cesar Chavez Bl Hollywood Freeway to Temple edit nbsp Front on view Hall of Justice 1925 nbsp Facade Hall of Justice nbsp Corner view Hall of JusticeThis area south to Second Street is now the Civic Center as well as the site of the Central Business District during the 1880s and 1890s L A County Hall of Justice 1925 nbsp 1905 view south on Broadway from north of Temple Street The Times Mirror printing house in foreground marked 110 N Broadway now site of the Hall of Justice Towers of the 1888 City Hall on the 200 block of S Broadway in the distance Fort Moore Hill now leveled at right nbsp c 1893 1900 looking east along Third St from Olive St on Bunker Hill 3 buildings stand out from left to right the 1888 City Hall Broadway between 2nd 3rd the Stimson Block 3rd amp Spring and the Bradbury Building 3rd amp Broadway Temple and Broadway edit Cable cars of the Temple Street Cable Railway ran along Temple Street starting in 1886 and were replaced with Pacific Electric streetcars in 1902 37 38 Northwest corner of Temple and Broadway edit nbsp The Women s Christian Temperance Union Temple and a Temple Street Cable Railway car 1890The three story brick Women s Christian Temperance Union building was erected in 1888 for 45 000 39 Also known as the Temperance Temple it has been demolished 40 and was replaced in 1957 by the Los Angeles County Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant 41 Southeast corner of Temple and Broadway Pound Cake Hill west side of New High St edit nbsp Los Angeles High Schoolon Pound Cake Hill 1870s nbsp Red Stone Courthouse and Post Office 1891 1936 nbsp Hall of Records adjacent to Courthouse on the south 1911 1973 This location was at the time known as Pound Cake Hill The buildings located here faced New High Street to their east and Broadway to their west They were as follows 42 Los Angeles High School whose original location 1873 1887 was between New High on the west and Broadway on the east south of Temple Street It was moved to California and Sand streets and in 1890 a new facility was built on Fort Moore Hill immediately north of where Broadway today crosses the Hollywood Freeway The Pound Cake Hill school was demolished and replaced by First the Red Stone Courthouse or Red Sandstone Courthouse which took over the function of courthouse from the Clocktower Courthouse also called the Temple Courthouse It was damaged beyond repair by Long Beach earthquake of 1933 and was torn down in 1936 The Los Angeles County Hall of Records was built next to south of the Red Sandstone Courthouse in 1911 After the 1971 San Fernando earthquake it was determined to be unsafe and it was demolished in 1973 A new Hall of Records was built and opened in 1962 one block west on the south side of Temple between Broadway and Hill Currently on the site are Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Los Angeles County Grand Jury A portion of Grand Park which stretches mid block between Temple and First from City Hall at Spring Street to the Music Center at Grand Avenue Realignment of Spring Street 1925 edit The Poundcake Hill buildings originally backed up to Broadway to their west and faced New High Street to their east New High Street see Sanborn map above was a north south street that ran parallel to Broadway and to Spring Street to its east As part of the construction of City Hall in the early 1920s New High Street was removed south of Temple and Spring Street was realigned more towards a north south orientation parallel with Broadway instead of running more northeasterly and meeting Main Street at Temple Street As a result the Poundcake Hill buildings faced the newly aligned Spring Street until they were demolished Southwest corner of Temple and Broadway edit The second location of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records opened 1962 Adjacent to the south mid block is a portion of Grand Park First and Broadway edit nbsp Looking south along Broadway from First Street 1904 5 At right from left to right C H Frost Building 145 141 3 the turreted Roanoke Bldg 137 9 Newell amp Gammon Bldg 131 5 Mason Opera House 125 9 At left Chamber of Commerce 128 1888 City Hall 228 238 Northeast corner of First and Broadway edit nbsp 1886 Los Angeles Times BuildingLos Angeles Times 1886 building This building was razed after a 1910 bombing and a new headquarters was opened on this site in 1912 The newspaper later moved further south on Spring Street to the Los Angeles Times building now part of Times Mirror Square occupying the entire block between Broadway Spring First and Second streets 43 Northwest corner of First and Broadway edit Site of the Tajo Building 1896 mid 20th c 44 Now the location of the Los Angeles County Law Library 45 Southeast corner of First and Broadway and east side of 100 block edit nbsp 1973 Pereira Addition building Times Mirror Square nbsp 1900s view of Chamber of Commerce 128 S Broadway nbsp Postcard c 1910 of Chamber of Commerce 128 S BroadwaySite of the Culver Block retail and office building 46 Now the site of the Times Mirror Square 1973 Pereira Addition so called because it was designed by William Pereira South of the Culver Block was the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building 128 130 S Broadway opened February 12 1904 47 a landmark at the time featured on postcards and in books 6 stories 4 floors Ground floor offices included those of the Los Angeles Herald and Consolidated Bank 48 Southwest corner of First and Broadway edit nbsp Mason Opera House or Mason Theatre nbsp C H Frost Building at 145 S Broadway c 1904 5 To its right the turreted Roanoke Bldg 137 9 Newell amp Gammon Bldg 131 5 and the Mason Opera House 125 9 The southwest corner during Victorian times the site of unremarkable retail and office buildings was from 1958 the location of the State Office Building 1958 60 architect Anson C Boyd razed 2006 It was named the Junipero Serra State Office Building and this moniker would be transferred to the former Broadway Department Store building at 4th and Broadway when it was opened to replace this building in 1998 49 It is now the location of the New U S Courthouse built in 2016 taking up the entire block between Broadway Hill First and Second 50 Just south of the southwest corner was the Mason Theatre 127 S Broadway Opened in 1903 as the Mason Opera House 1 600 seats Benjamin Marshall of the Chicago firm Marshall amp Wilson designed the building in association with John Parkinson Marshall is known for designing the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago Remodeled in 1924 by Meyer amp Holler Later as the Mason Theatre it showed Spanish language films Demolished 1955 51 145 S Broadway 52 site of the C H Frost Building later known as the Haig M Prince Building Built 1898 architect John Parkinson 53 Now the location of the new United States Courthouse built in 2016 taking up the entire block between Broadway Hill First and Second 50 Second and Broadway edit nbsp Broadway looking south from 2nd St 1895 1905 The 1888 City Hall is visible on the left east side nbsp Another view of Broadway looking south from 2nd St showing a cable car c 1893 1895Northeast corner of Second and Broadway edit nbsp The 2nd amp Broadway Hellman Building in 1918One of several Hellman Buildings across Downtown L A not to be confused with the still existing Hellman Building at Fourth and Spring was located here 138 from 1897 to 1959 54 The site is now a parking structure part of the Times Mirror Square complex Southwest corner of Second and Broadway and the west side of the 200 block edit nbsp West side of Broadway from 229 at left to 207 at right SW corner of 2nd St sometime after 1894 From left to right Bicknell Block with the Los Angeles Furniture Co Potomac Block with Ville de Paris and City of London stores the YMCA building with its turret and two gables and the American National Bank building nbsp American National Bank later California Bank Building 1878 1911 southwest corner 1890 To the viewer s left south are the turret and two gables of the YMCA Building 1889 then the Potomac Block 1890 nbsp Merchants Trust Company Building in 1910 nbsp Potomac Block c 1890 1895 nbsp The Ville de Paris department store 1901 nbsp Boston Dry Goods and Harris Newmark buildings 1899The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917 as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris Coulter s department store from 1905 1917 and J W Robinson s Boston Dry Goods store from 1895 1915 All three stores would move to Seventh Street when it became the upscale shopping street between 1915 and 1917 On the southwest corner of 2nd and Broadway was Judge O Melveny s house built in 1870 This was replaced by the American National Bank later California Bank Building which one turn was replaced by the California Building in 1911 Nos 201 213 Broadway are now known named the Broadway Media Center Further south on the west side of Broadway was 207 211 location of the YMCA Building 207 209 211 Romanesque Revival architecture opened in July 1889 demolished in 1903 The YMCA operated here at 207 from 1889 until 1903 City of London opened here in August 1891 run by Messrs Hiles and Niccolls who came from the City of Paris department store It carried curtains window shades comforters and the like 55 It operated here until August 1895 when it moved next door to the Potomac Block at 213 56 The YMCA Building was demolished to make way for the Merchants Trust Co Building 57 Coulter s complex Potomac and Bicknell blocks edit The adjacent Potomac Block and Bicknell Block originally housed prominent retailers of the day then were joined together in 1906 by Coulter s department store to form a complex opening it as a new 157 000 sq ft 14 600 m2 store in June 1905 58 59 60 Potomac Block edit The Potomac Block 213 223 S Broadway was from 1905 to 1917 known as the B F Coulter Building It was originally developed by lumberyard and mill owner J M Griffith It was designed in 1888 by Block Curlett and Eisen in Romanesque architectural style 61 and opened on July 17 1890 62 Tenants included Ville de Paris department store at 221 223 from 1893 through 1906 61 City of London Dry Goods Co which moved here from next door at 211 in August 1895 and advertised for this location through August 1899 56 It was the first time major retail stores opened on South Broadway in what would be a shift of the upmarket shopping district from 1890 to 1905 from around First and Spring to South Broadway In 1904 Coulter s bought the Potomac Block and combined it with the Bicknell block to create its new store that opened in 1905 After Coulter s moved 215 continued as a branch of Coulter s through 1927 Then 215 217 was home to the Pacific Furniture House in the 1940s 219 housed Fisch s Department Store in the 1940s The building was demolished in 1953 and is still the site of a parking lot 63 Bicknell Block edit The Bicknell Block or Bicknell Building at 225 229 S Broadway with back entrances at 224 228 S Hill Street was part of Coulter s from 1905 from 1917 After Coulter s moved in 1917 it housed the Western Shoe Co through 1922 later known as the Western Department Store 1922 1928 Lettering covered the face of the building from top to bottom through the end of the 1950s THE LARGEST SHOE DEPT IN THE WEST 64 Further south on Broadway edit 231 235 the Harris Newmark Building 1899 Abram Edelman Bartlett Music Co 233 annex to J W Robinson s 235 Goodwill Industries store 233 235 1950s 60s The building still stands but all floors except the ground floor have been removed 237 241 the Boston Dry Goods Building completed 1895 demolished architects Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt designer of the Bradbury Building 65 66 The building was home to J W Robinson s Boston Dry Goods store from 1895 to 1915 Scott s Department Store 239 241 1920s Third Street Store 237 241 1950s 60s Demolished currently the site of a parking lot 251 was home to the I Magnin speciality department store which opened here on January 2 1899 67 starting 1904 I Magnin announced that the store would be known by the name of its manager Myer Siegel 68 Southeast corner and east side of Broadway from 2nd to 3rd edit nbsp Looking north along Broadway at its east side past 2nd Street From top left The L A Times Bldg with castle like turret with the 1911 Hall of Records behind it The Chamber of Commerce Bldg at 128 Drugstore in the Hellman Bldg 144 6 at the NE corner of 2nd Street Dentist in the Nolan Smith and Bridge Bldg 200 4 at the SE corner of 2nd New King Hotel in the Gordon Bldg 206 10 Victor Clothing in its location from 1926 to 1964 in the Crocker Bldg 212 6 Pig n Whistle in the Copp Bldg 218 224 1888 City Hall at far right nbsp Los Angeles City Hall 1888 1928 demolished nbsp B nai B rith Temple opened 1873 the city s first synagogue nbsp Victor Clothing building 242The southeast corner of 2nd and Broadway was the site of The First Presbyterian Church was located here in 1894 69 The church was replaced sometime before 1906 by the Nolan Smith and Bridge Building 200 4 S Broadway stores and a restaurant 70 Now the corner is the site of the Historic Broadway underground light rail station under construction Mid block were Crocker Building 212 6 71 Home to Victor Clothing from 1920 to 1964 B nai B rith Temple 1873 214 S Broadway post 1890 numbering the city s first synagogue razed to make way for the Copp Building 218 224 S Broadway home to the original 1908 Pig n Whistle candy shop and tea room 72 The Pig n Whistle would open locations at 7th and Broadway and in Hollywood where it would become a landmark restaurant that still operates today City Hall 1888 1928 opened 1888 demolished 1929 228 238 S Broadway architect Solomon Irmscher Haas Romanesque Revival Now a parking lot Three stories it had a 150 foot 46 m campanile Red and brown brick Housed the Los Angeles Public Library for a time until it moved to the new Hamburger s department store building at Eighth and Broadway in 1908 73 The site is now part of the 213 S Spring parking garage 45 240 246 the Hosfield Building location of the Natatorium indoor swimming pool in 1894 and the Imperial Restaurant in 1906 71 After 1964 location of Victor Clothing notable for its changing murals reflecting local Chicano culture Victor Clothing operated here until 2001 and was known i a for its frequent ads on Spanish language television 74 Third and Broadway edit Northwest corner of Third and Broadway edit nbsp Pan American Lofts built 1895 The corner is home to one of the oldest buildings outside the Plaza area the 1895 Irvine Byrne Block or Byrne Block now called the Pan American Lofts The architect was Sumner Hunt It was built in a hybrid Spanish Colonial Revival Beaux Arts style The building was home to the renowned I Magnin clothing store that opened here on January 2 1899 75 on June 19 1904 I Magnin announced that the Los Angeles store would henceforth be known as Myer Siegel 68 After a fire at the Irvine Byrne Building destroyed its store on February 16 1911 Myer Siegel moved further south on Broadway It was modernized and converted to lofts in 2007 and given its present name The halls and staircase have appeared in many of Alfred Hitchcock s movies Brad Pitt s Se7en Fight Club Blade Runner and other TV shows and commercials 76 From Third Street south to Olympic Blvd originally Tenth St and from Hill Street east to Los Angeles Street including Broadway is the Historic Core district the city s main commercial and entertainment area in the first half of the 20th century Northeast corner of Third and Broadway edit nbsp East side of Broadway looking south past 3rd St c 1903 4 From left to right 1888 City Hall with flag Rindge Block at NE corner of 3rd Bradbury Building nbsp East side of Broadway looking north past 3rd St c 1888 From left to right 1888 City Hall with flag Rindge Block at NE corner of 3rd Bradbury BuildingOn this corner 77 Originally the J C Graves house stood here Graves bought the property in 1879 for 2 250 The house was sold and removed to 10th and Hope streets in 1888 Rindge Block 1898 sold in 1899 for 190 000 to Frederick H Rindge the King of Malibu 248 260 S Broadway commercial building the top floors were removed and only the ground floor remains Southwest corner of Third and Broadway edit nbsp Entrance area Million Dollar Theatre nbsp Roofline Million Dollar Theatre nbsp Detail side Million Dollar TheatreMillion Dollar Theatre 1917 8 architects Albert C Martin and William Lee Woollett Spanish Baroque Revival style 2 345 seats 307 S Broadway It is the northernmost of the movie palaces that comprise the Broadway Theater District and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places 78 Built by Sid Grauman who would later open Grauman s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood The theater was designed by architects with a fanciful facade in the Churrigueresque style After more than 30 years as one of the city s most prestigious first run movie palaces the Million Dollar Theater presented Spanish language films and variety shows from 1950 until the late 1980s The theater had a seating capacity of 2 345 when it opened in 1918 79 In 1925 Ben Hur played for six months at the Million Dollar Theater citation needed Southeast corner of Third and Broadway edit nbsp View from Bunker Hill to Bradbury Building and the Stimson Block at 3rd amp Spring The Pan American Lofts had not yet been built on the NW corner of 3rd amp Broadway Around 1894 5 nbsp Bradbury Building in 1894 then anchoring the southwestern end of the business district 80 nbsp Bradbury Building in 1960 nbsp Bradbury Building exterior 2005 nbsp Atrium of the Bradbury BuildingBradbury Building 1893 architects Sumner Hunt and George Wyman Italian Renaissance Revival Romanesque Revival and Chicago School styles the oldest remaining commercial building in Downtown Los Angeles The Los Angeles Conservancy calls it an icon and a unique treasure Commissioned by gold mining and real estate millionaire Lewis Bradbury It is famous for its light filled atrium open cage elevators marble stairways and ornate iron railings and has appeared in many films including Blade Runner 79 Third to Fourth edit South of the intersection of Third and Broadway sites of interest include West side edit nbsp Ville de Paris department store in the Homer Laughlin Building c 1905 nbsp Homer Laughlin Building in 2014 nbsp Grand Central Market in the Homer Laughlin Building nbsp West side of the 300 block during a Ringling Bros circus parade in 1905 showing Jacoby Bros and J R Lane stores nbsp J M Hale Co s new store at 341 5 Broadway 1909 nbsp Cummings shoe store Grant Block NW corner of 4th c 1902 317 Homer Laughlin Building 1896 John Parkinson 317 S Broadway home to Grand Central Market since 1917 Previously home to department stores Coulter s 1898 1905 and Ville de Paris 1905 1917 Former J R Lane Dry Goods store 327 329 S Broadway successors to Crandall and Lane located here through the 1910s Later this was the location of Field s jewelry store and the Broadway food market Still standing now a food court but top floors were removed now single story only 45 331 5 Former Jacoby Bros department store 331 3 5 S Broadway from 1900 to 1935 At 60 000 square feet 5 600 m2 over four floors plus a basement it was stated at its opening in 1900 that it had the largest selection of clothing and of shoes in the Western United States 81 Architect John B Parkinson 82 The building was home to an independent Boston Store department store in the late 1930s no relation to J W Robinson s or the later regional chain by the same name 83 Currently independent retail 2 of 4 floors were removed Replaced the First Methodist Episcopalian Church previously located here which moved to the northeast corner of 6th amp Hill 84 Still standing but top floors were removed two floors remain 45 337 9 former Haggarty s department store from 1905 85 to 1917 86 341 3 5 former J M Hale department store from 1909 87 through the 1920s 351 Site of The Wonder 351 S Broadway opened in 1921 was the largest retail silk store in the U S 88 355 363 Grant Building originally called the Grant Block 1898 3 stories 89 enlarged to 7 stores 1901 2 by John Parkinson 90 now two stories at 363 S Broadway northwest corner of 4th Street Once seven stories tall all but the first two floors have been removed 91 It was home to the W E Cummings shoe store which had a large shoe on the roof of the building serving as a landmark then from 1908 a Montgomery Bros jewelry store one of the most prominent in the city at the time 92 The building also housed the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles from its establishment from 1947 to 1952 93 East side edit Blackstone Building not to be confused with the later Blackstone Department Store building at 901 S Broadway 318 322 S Broadway 1907 94 housed Blackstone s Department Store from 1907 to 1917 as well as the Los Angeles County Library and the Cozy Theater Originally 5 stories now 3 95 Trustee Building 1905 Parkinson and Bergstrom 94 340 S Broadway home to various retail stores including Columbia Outfitting in the 1920s O T Johnson Block 1895 Robert Brown Young 3 stories 96 All but one floor have been removed 45 O T Johnson Building 1902 John Parkinson Romanesque 7 stories 96 356 364 S Broadway NE corner of 4th Broadway 97 98 All but two floors have been removed 45 Fourth to Fifth streets edit West side edit former The Broadway dept store now the Junipero Serra state office bldg 320 W 4th St SW corner of Broadway former Woolworth s five and dime 431 S Broadway nbsp Terrazzo floor of former Newberry s five and dime Metropolitan Building former home of Owl Drug Co 1914 1934 L A Public Library 1913 1926 J J Newberry five and dime 1939 1990 315 W 5th NW corner of Broadway East side edit nbsp Judson C Rives Building 1907 at 424 nbsp Bumiller Building at 430 home to the Bon Marche department store in 1906 nbsp NE corner 5th Broadway early 1920s before the Chester Williams Bldg replaced the Victorian building nbsp Chester Williams Bldg NE corner 5th Broadway nbsp Detail Chester Williams Bldg nbsp Chester Williams Bldg Broadway side nbsp Ironwork Chester Williams Bldg Perla on Broadway a modern 35 story condominium tower completed in 2022 400 S Broadway Site of first Thrifty Drug Store razed 412 S Broadway Judson C Rives Building 1907 Charles Ronald Aldrich 10 stories 424 S Broadway currently The Judson Bumiller Building 1906 Morgan amp Walls 6 stories 430 S Broadway currently the Broadway Lofts Chester Williams Building 1926 Curlett amp Beelman 12 stories 215 W 5th St NE corner of Broadway replaced a Victorian building with Sun Drug Co and Weigel Rixon Clothes ShopsFifth to Sixth streets edit nbsp Broadway at night 1950s looking south from 5th Street Visible are Hartfield s at 537 the Los Angeles Theatre Silverwoods and Swelldom at the corner of 6th the Palace Theatre Harris amp Frank and Desmond s in the 600 block Bullock s and the Hotel Lankershim at the corner of 7th West side edit nbsp West side of Broadway south from 5th St Walker s department store Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars 1927 postcard nbsp View north from 6th St towards the 500 and 400 blocks of Broadway west at left east at right c 1906 The new Parmelee Dohrmann flagship 1906 at 436 444 Broadway is visible at center nbsp Schulte United Building 1928 nbsp F amp W Grand Silver Store Hartfield s Building 1931 Fifth Street Store Walker s department store bldg 1927 architect Alexander Curlett SW corner of 5th 501 S Broadway The store was known by various names 1905 1909 Steele Faris amp Walker Co 1909 1925 The Fifth Street Store 99 100 1926 1946 Walker s 101 1946 1953 Milliron s 101 1953 1959 Ohrbach s Downtown 102 Schulte United Building 1928 529 S Broadway F amp W Grand Silver Store Building 1931 Walker amp Eisen Art Deco 537 541 S Broadway It has housed F amp W Grand Silver five and dime from 1931 1934 a National Dollar store 1934 Richman Brothers 1950s and a Hartfield s department store 1960s 103 East side edit nbsp Title Guarantee Block a k a Jewelry Trades Building 1913 Morgan Walls and Morgan SE corner 5th Broadway nbsp Pettebone Building 1905 Robert Brown Young nbsp Roxie Theatre nbsp Cameo Theater 1910 Alfred Rosenheim nbsp Arcade Theater 1910 Morgan amp Walls nbsp Spring Arcade nbsp Silverwoods Building at 556 8 NE corner 6th Broadway nbsp Detail Broadway entrance nbsp Interior nbsp Detail Silverwoods BuildingThe Title Guarantee Block 1913 Morgan Walls and Morgan 500 S Broadway SE corner of 5th now called the Jewelry Trades Building Pettebone Building opened 1905 architect Robert Brown Young 510 512 S Broadway Roxie Theatre 1931 orig 1 600 seats 518 S Broadway Movie palace The Roxie was built in 1932 the last of the movie palaces built on Broadway The Roxie had a seating capacity of 1 600 when it opened and was noted for its Art Deco or Zigzag Moderne style including its stepped roofline angular grillwork chevron ornament and terrazzo sunburst in the sidewalk The theater s sleek Streamline Moderne ticket booth was removed when the theater was converted to retail use 2 Cameo Theater 1910 900 seats 528 S Broadway Nickelodeon The Cameo opened in 1910 with a seating capacity of 775 Designed by Alfred Rosenheim in a Renaissance Revival style the Cameo was originally known as Clune s Broadway Until it closed in 1991 it was the oldest continuously operating movie theater in California 2 The Cameo has been converted into a swap meet type market 104 Arcade Theater 1910 orig 1 450 seats 534 S Broadway English music hall style theater The Arcade opened in 1910 as a vaudeville house that was part of the Pantages vaudeville circuit The Arcade was designed by Morgan amp Walls in the Beaux Arts style with tripartite vertical division of the facade 2 Theater has been closed since 1992 Currently used as retail space Broadway Arcade Spring Arcade Building 540 S Broadway Silverwoods Building 1920 Walker and Eisen 556 8 S Broadway northeast corner of 6th Street Housed Silverwoods a specialty department store for apparel flagship for a large regional chain 5 stories 94 Sixth to Seventh streets edit West side edit Southwest corner of Sixth and Broadway edit H Jevne Company Building 603 S Broadway 1906 7 Parkinson amp Bergstrom still standing H Jevne amp Co was one of the city s most prominent grocer and this new location complemented the one on Spring Street Prior to 1906 the two story frame Norton Block of Major John H Norton stood on the site 105 600 block of Broadway west side edit nbsp W side of Broadway between 6th and 7th c 1907 9 Bullock s at left before it had expanded northward to the right nbsp W side of mid 600 block Broadway c 1915 Bullock s at left NE corner of 7th Central Dept Store Bldg 609 619 at right nbsp Crop of postcard of former Central Department Store and H Jevne buildings 1920s nbsp Contemporary view of the Los Angeles Theatre 609 619 Next to what is now the Jevne building on the south at 609 619 S Broadway were several buildings in succession The Hotel Palms a leading hotel of the city renovated and repurposed in 1906 7 for use as the Central Department Store 106 The Central Department Store architect Samuel Tilden Norton three floors and basement with a total of 85 000 sq ft 7 900 m2 opened on March 25 1907 107 but went bankrupt the next year The New Paris Cloak and Suit Emporium at 609 11 advertised in 1915 From 1921 or 1922 through 1927 108 the prominent Myer Siegel clothing store was located in part of the building 617 619 Los Angeles Theatre 1931 2 000 seats 615 S Broadway Movie Palace The Los Angeles opened in 1931 for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin s City Lights 25 It had a seating capacity just short of 2 000 The theater was designed by S Charles Lee and S Tilden Norton in the French Baroque style and was modeled on San Francisco s Fox Theater The Los Angeles included the latest technological features when it opened including an electric monitor of available seats blue neon floor lights a restaurant a children s playroom soundproof crying rooms smoking room with built in cigarette lighters a walnut paneled lounge with a secondary screen on which a periscope like system of prisms relayed the film 2 The ladies powder room was lined with mirrors and vanities and the toilet stalls were each done in a different kind of marble and each toilet bowl of a different pastel shade 25 In 1988 the Los Angeles Times called it a movie house for the gods even in its present dusty state 28 Columnist Jack Smith wrote that the Los Angeles Theater was palatial beyond the dreams of a prince with a lobby that suggested nothing less than the glory of Versailles 25 Aerosmith s video for Jaded was filmed throughout the theater It is owned by the Broadway Theatre Group and continues to be used as a performing arts venue 109 Current capacity 1 931 former S H Kress five and dime 621 3 5 S Broadway St Vincent s Jewelry Mart formerly Bullock s dept store NW corner of Seventh and BroadwayEast side edit nbsp 1923 view north from 7th St to east side of 600 block S Broadway Note Mullen amp Bluett store nbsp 600 block east side with Palace Theatre nbsp Walter P Story Building 1909 SE corner of 6th once home to Mullen amp Bluett nbsp Detail Walter P Story Building nbsp Desmond s building in 2014 nbsp Clifton s Cafeteria in 2005 before its mid century fronting was removed nbsp Interior of Clifton s Cafeteria nbsp Clifton s Cafeteria nbsp Palace Theater Walter P Story Building 1909 Morgan Walls and Clements Beaux Arts 600 2 4 6 8 10 S Broadway SE corner of Sixth and Broadway Former location of the Mullen amp Bluett clothing store Desmond s dept store bldg 1924 Albert C Martin Sr Beaux arts and Spanish 6 stories 85 000 square foot 7 900 square metre 616 S Broadway Desmond s opened its final flagship store here in 1924 and closed it in 1972 110 In 2018 the building was renovated as office space a restaurant and a rooftop bar 111 Schaber s Cafeteria Building 1928 620 S Broadway currently a Jordan Brand flagship store Palace Theatre 1911 G Albert Lansburgh Italian Renaissance Revival architecture 2 200 seats originally 1 068 seats today 630 S Broadway vaudeville theater and movie palace The Palace opened in 1911 with a seating capacity of 2 200 It was an Orpheum Circuit chain vaudeville theater from 1911 to 1926 and is the oldest remaining Orpheum theater in the United States The structure was based on a Florentine early Renaissance palazzo The brick facade includes multi colored terra cotta swags and four panels depicting the muses of vaudeville sculpted by Domingo Mora 2 It is also owned by the Broadway Theatre Group 109 Joseph E Carr Building 1908 9 Robert Brown Young architect 112 644 646 S Broadway Site of Harris amp Frank clothing store its second downtown location which operated from 1947 1980 113 Clifton s Cafeteria 648 S BroadwaySeventh to Eighth streets edit nbsp Broadway north from 7th St 1917 Bullock s is on the left side nbsp Broadway south from 7th St towards Hamburger s 1917West side edit nbsp State Theater State Theatre 1921 2 450 seats 703 S Broadway Vaudeville theater and movie palace The State opened in 1921 with a seating capacity of 2 450 114 The theater offered both film and vaudeville when it opened Judy Garland performed at the theater as part of the Gumm Sisters in 1929 Designed by Charles Weeks and William Day the 12 story Loew s State is said to be the largest brick clad structure in Los Angeles 114 The theater is also noted for the seated Buddha Billiken figure as a good luck charm located in a niche above the proscenium arch 2 The exterior has an elaborate silver platter chased ornamentation above the ground story 115 In 1998 Metropolitan Theaters stopped showing movies at the State and leased the space to the Universal Church 30 As of 2015 the State is owned by the Broadway Theatre Group and is leased by the Cathedral of Faith for use as a church 116 F W Woolworth Building 1920 719 S Broadway currently houses Ross Dress for Less nbsp Reich and Lievre store at 737 745 S Broadway depicted in 1917 ad for store opening Isaac Bros Building home of Reich and Lievre cloak and suit emporium women s apparel 1917 ca 1927 739 745 Broadway Merritt Building 1915 761 S Broadway NW corner of 8th East side edit nbsp Hotel Lankershim demolished nbsp Globe Theater nbsp Panoramic view from the Hotel Lankershim showing 7th Street Broadway and Spring Street ca 1905 1907Site of Hotel Lankershim 1905 demolished 700 S Broadway SE corner 7th St Globe Theatre 1913 1 900 seats Legitimate theater Located at 744 S Broadway the Globe opened in 1913 as the Morosco Theatre with a seating capacity of 782 Built for impresario Oliver Morosco and designed by the architectural firm of Morgan Walls amp Morgan it was used for full scale live dramatic theater It was converted into a movie theater during the Great Depression and later served as a Spanish language movie theater The building was converted into a swap meet in 1987 2 As of June 2014 update construction to restore it to use as an entertainment venue is ongoing 117 The restored marquee was relit June 24 2014 118 The Globe is now a multipurpose space for music theatrical events and films Current capacity 2 000 Eighth to Ninth streets edit West side edit nbsp May Co Building 1912 nbsp Eastern Columbia Building the Jewel of Downtown May Co Bldg former dept store 829 S Broadway Eastern Columbia Building 849 S BroadwayEast side edit nbsp Tower Theatre at 802 SE corner 8th Broadway nbsp Rialto Theater at 812 nbsp Platt Building at 830 nbsp Orpheum Theatre at 842 nbsp Ninth and Broadway Building 850 NE corner 9th Broadway nbsp Ninth and Broadway Building detailTower Theatre 1927 900 seats 802 S Broadway The Tower opened in 1927 with a seating capacity of 1 000 119 It was the first of more than 70 theaters designed by S Charles Lee who described the Tower as a modified French Renaissance design It was the first movie theater in Downtown Los Angeles equipped to accommodate talking pictures 2 In June 2021 after extensive renovation it reopened as an Apple Store 120 109 Allied Arts Building 1922 808 S Broadway bought by Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1939 Rialto Theatre 1917 812 S Broadway the Rialto opened as Quinn s Rialto a nickelodeon in 1917 It was purchased by Sid Grauman in 1919 the year after he opened the Million Dollar Theater Today the theater is home to an Urban Outfitters store 121 122 123 Wurlitzer Building 1923 Walker and Eisen 818 S Broadway Platt Building 1927 Walker and Eisen Gothic Revival architecture 830 S Broadway originally the headquarters of the Platt Music Corporation and is now one of several Anjac Fashion s office buildings and home of The Broadway Bar 124 Orpheum Theatre 1926 G Albert Lansburgh 1 976 seats 842 S Broadway The Orpheum opened in 1926 as the fourth Los Angeles home for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit Architect G Albert Lansburgh designed the Francois Premier style interior The Orpheum has hosted performances by Jack Benny Eddie Cantor Sophie Tucker Will Rogers Count Basie Duke Ellington the Marx Brothers and Lena Horne 2 In the 1990s Tom Hanks used the Orpheum as a substitute for the Orpheum in Pittsburgh for his film That Thing You Do 104 The Orpheum has also been featured in the Guns N Roses video November Rain and in the Sean Penn produced video for Jewel s You Were Meant for Me 104 In 2006 the film Dreamgirls was shot at the Orpheum 24 The television series So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol have used the Orpheum for Los Angeles auditions and Idol has televised its early elimination rounds from the theater Ninth and Broadway Building 1930 architect Claud Beelman 850 S Broadway 125 Ninth to Tenth streets edit West side edit nbsp Blackstone s Department Store building Blackstone s Department Store building 901 S Broadway Designed by John and Donald Parkinson in 1916 with 1939 a 1st floor facade remodeling by Morgan Walls amp Clements Ace Hotel Los Angeles United Artists Theatre 1927 21 921 933 S Broadway see belowUnited Artists Theater edit nbsp Ace Hotel and United Artists Theatre United Artists Theater now The Theatre at Ace Hotel Movie palace Located at 933 S Broadway the United Artists opened in 1927 with a seating capacity of 2 214 It was the showcase for movies from the United Artists group created in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks and D W Griffith The theater was designed by C Howard Crane with Walker amp Eisen in a Gothic style inspired by a church in Segovia Spain The columns feature terra cotta capitals carved with film and theater themed grotesques The interior includes a series of frescoes and murals by the firm of Anthony Heinsbergen 2 In 1990 the United Artists Theater was restored by Gene Scott s L A University Church Scott called on his television flock to come to Los Angeles to help with the restoration 126 Scott s famous Jesus Saves sign was placed on the back side of the building to avoid interfering with the original facade In 2013 the upper floors of the building were renovated into a boutique hotel the Ace Los Angeles the auditorium has been returned to use as a concert venue and theater South of Olympic Boulevard originally Tenth Street edit West side edit nbsp Los Angeles Examiner Bldg old postcard nbsp Herald Examiner Building September 2020Los Angeles Examiner building SW corner 11th Athens Park 124th to El Segundo Blvd Site of the Globe Department Store 51st and Broadway 127 East side edit The Hoxton hotel 1060 S Broadway in the Los Angeles Railway Building 1925 office building Noerenberg amp Johnson Beaux Arts architecture 128 Proper Hotel 1100 S Broadway 1926 Curlett amp Beelman California Renaissance Revival architecture The building originally housed the Commercial Club of Southern California then the Cabrillo Hotel in the early 1940s the Case Hotel from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s and a YMCA from 1965 to 2004 129 Other surviving theaters adjacent to Broadway edit Warner Bros Downtown Theatre Vaudeville theater and movie palace Located at 401 W 7th St northwest corner of South Hill and West 7th St Opening on August 17 1920 it was originally called the Pantages Theatre but was renamed Warner Bros Downtown Theatre in 1930 after the Hollywood Pantages Theatre was opened 130 131 The exterior has an imposing domed corner tower flanked by twin facades on 7th and Hill 132 Later in the 1960s it was known as the Warrens Theatre 131 It currently houses a jewelry store Olympic Theatre Movie palace Located at 313 W 8th St half a block from S Broadway it originally opened in 1927 as Bard s 8th Street Theatre converted from a restaurant For a time it had a second entrance on Broadway After a period as a chandelier store COS a higher end brand of H amp M began remodeling the store in 2016 133 123 Mayan Theater Vaudeville theater and movie palace Located at 1014 South Hill Street Opened in August 1927 and now designated a Historic Cultural Monument the Mayan is currently used as a nightclub Current capacity 1 491 Belasco Theatre Legitimate theater Located at 1050 South Hill Street adjacent to the Mayan Built by the Belasco brothers and designed by Morgan Walls and Clements It served as a church from 1950 to 1987 renovations were completed in 2011 to modernize the sound and lighting systems 134 Currently hosts services for the Los Angeles campus of Hillsong Church Current capacity 1 601 Street grid editSouth of Third Street edit Landmarks are shown on the following street grid of the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles Abbreviations and notes edit Abbreviations DS Department Store Res residential building Architectural styles AD Art Deco BA Beaux Arts BR Baroque Revival CR Classical Revival IRR Italian Renaissance Revival It Italianate Rom Romanesque RR Renaissance Revival Architects C amp B Curlett amp Beelman JP John Parkison P amp B Parkinson amp Bergstrom RBY Robert Brown Young Italics indicate the building s current name or main tenant Non italics indicate a historic name or tenant of an existing building An asterisk indicates a demolished building For the area north of Third Street see Victorian Downtown Los Angeles For the area to the west of Hill Street see Financial District Los Angeles HILLST Irvine Byrne Block now Pan American Lofts 1895 BROADWAY Douglas Bldg 1899 SPRINGSTREET Stimson Bldg 1893 1963 MAINSTREET LOSANGELESSTREETTHIRD ST THIRD ST THIRD ST THIRD ST THIRD ST Million Dollar Theatre Bradbury Bldg 1893 Ronald Reagan State Bldg 1990 Toy DistrictAngels Flight Homer Laughlin Building 1898 Now Grand Central Market formerly Coulter s Ville de Paris Broadway Spring Center parking structure 1990 Round HouseJacoby Bros DS 331 5 1900 1935 Grant Bldg 1898 Trustee Building 340 1905 PB O T Johnson Block 350 1895 It RBY O T Johnson Bldg 356 1902 JB Rom parking lot Hellman Bldg 1902 FOURTH ST FOURTH ST FOURTH ST FOURTH ST FOURTH ST The Broadway DS Junipero Serra State Office Bldg 2 vacant parking lot Continental Bldg 1902 San Fernando Bldg 1906 IRR Toy DistrictSubwayTerminalBldg Now Metro 417 Hotel Clark Occidental Hotel Boos Bros Cafeteria St Clarenden Hotel Judson C Rive Bldg 1907 419 S Spring435 S Spring Stowell El Dorado Hotel El Dorado Lofts 1913 Dog ParkTitle Guarantee Bldg 1930 Metropolitan Bldg 1913 Newberry s 5 amp 10 Now Fallas Paredes DS and lofts Chester Williams Bldg 1926 Crocker Bank Spring Arts Tower 1915 Title Insurance and Trust Company Building Trust Bldg 1928 Rowan Bldg 1912 King Edward Hotel 1906 P amp B FIFTH ST FIFTH ST FIFTH ST FIFTH ST FIFTH ST Pershing Square Pershing Square station Metro Rail Fifth Street Store DS Roxie TheatreCameo TheaterArcade Theatre now retail Hotel Alexandria 1906 Security Trust and Savings Bank Security Bldg Lofts 1907 Hotel Rosslyn Annex Pershing Hotel Pershing Apts 1889 Baltimore Hotel 1910 Spring Arcade Los Angeles Theater Center 1916 Parking Structure 545 Topaz Apts Paramount Theatre International Jewelry Center Swelldom DS Silverwoods DS Broadway Jewelry Mart Pacific Southwest Bank 1910 Santa Fe Bldg 1906 SIXTH ST SIXTH ST SIXTH ST SIXTH ST SIXTH ST Consolidated Reatly Bldg California Jewelry Mart 1908 1935 Sun Realty Bldg Los Angeles Jewelry Center 1931 Harris amp Frank Bldg Wholesale Jewelry Exchange 1925 Western Jewelry Mart William Fox Bldg Fox Jewelry Plaza 1932 Los Angeles Theatre Mullen amp Bluett DS Walter P Story Bldg Desmond s Bldg Palace Theatre J E Carr Bldg Harris amp Frank 1947 1980 Hotel HaywardE F Hutton 1931 California Canadian Bank 1923 Barclays Bank 1919 United California BankStock ExchangeMortgage Guaranty Building 1913 Banks amp Huntley Bldg 1930 Pacific Electric Bdng 1905 Cecil Hotel 1924 Warner Bros a k a Pantages Warren Theatre 1920 Now JewelryTheater Center Bullock s DS St Vincent Jewelry Center Bank of Italy Bank of America SB Lofts 1924 Bartlett Bldg 1911 SEVENTH ST SEVENTH ST SEVENTH ST SEVENTH ST SEVENTH ST Foreman amp Clark DS Foreman amp Clark Bldg 1928 Curlett amp Beelman Art Deco and Neo Gothic State Theatre Hotel Lankershim Globe Theatre Dearden s DSGarfield Bldg 1930 Union Bank amp Trust Company Bldg Union Lofts 1922 Griffin on Spring Apts 2018 Great Republic Lofts 1923 EIGHTH ST EIGHTH ST EIGHTH ST EIGHTH ST EIGHTH ST RKO HillstreetTheatre 1922 1963 820 Olive 825 South Hill res Hamburger s DS 1908 1923 May Company DS 1923 1986 May Company Building Tower Theatre 1927 BR Rialto Theatre 1917 AD CR Orpheum Theatre 1926 BA Lane Mortgage Bldg 1923 National City Tower 1924 135 136 California Theatre 1918 1990 BA Gray Bldg 824 Coast Fed Savings Bldg 1926 Parking lotAlexan tower planned Eastern Columbia Bldg 1930 City Club Bldg 1925 137 Harris Newmark Bldg 1926 RR C amp B Cooper Bldg 1926 C amp B NINTH ST NINTH ST NINTH ST NINTH ST small retail May Co Garage Bldg 1926 Blackstone s DS 1907 1917 United Artists Theatre Ace Hotel Gerry Building 1947 SM South Park by Windsor Apts Broadway Palace Apts 2017 OLYMPIC BL formerly TENTH ST OLYMPIC BL formerly TENTH ST Mayan TheaterBelasco Theatre Broadway Palace Apts 2017 Western Pacific Bldg 1925 White Log Coffee Shop 138 Los Angeles Railway HQ Hoxton Hotel 1925 ELEVENTH ST ELEVENTH ST ELEVENTH ST ELEVENTH ST Proposed 43 story Sky Trees res tower 139 Herald Examiner Bldg 1914 Commercial Club Proper Hotel 1926 Harris Building 1923 BA Table of former department stores on Broadway and 7th streets editOpened Left Moved or closed Store Floor area gross Location Architects Current useSPRING ST BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND1884 1898 Moved to B way Coulter s Hollenbeck Block SW corner 2nd amp Spring Historic Broadway station1888 1908 Moved to 8th B way Hamburger s Phillips Block Franklin amp Spring Burgess J Reeve Site of City Hall1889 1910 Moved to B way Mullen amp Bluett 101 5 N Spring Empty lot1891 1900 Moved to 3rd B way Jacoby Bros 128 134 138 N Spring at Court Site of City Hall1895 The Hub Bullard Block Spring at Court Morgan amp Walls Site of City HallBROADWAY north of 4th St 1893 1898 Moved to 317 B way Ville de Paris 140 A Fusenot Co Potomac Block 221 3 S Broadway Block Curlett amp Eisen added to Coulter s late 1907 demolished 1958 now a parking lot1895 1915 Moved to 7th St Boston Dry Goods J W Robinson Co 237 241 S Broadway Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt architects of the Bradbury Building Parking lot1898 1905 Moved to 200 block of B way Coulter s 1898 1905 317 325 S Broadway through to 314 322 Hill Street 141 Homer Laughlin Building John B Parkinson became Ville de ParisNow Grand Central Market1899 142 1935 6 Moved to 605 B way 143 144 Jacoby Bros 60 000 sq ft 5 600 m2 331 333 335 S Broadway John B Parkinson 145 Was Boston Store in late 1930s 146 Currently independent retail 2 of 4 floors were removed 1899 Moved to 455 B way then 617 B way I Magnin Myer Siegel Irvine Byrne Block 251 S Broadway 147 Sumner Hunt Wedding chapel1905 1917 Moved to 7th St Coulter s 157 000 sq ft 14 600 m2 148 Potomac Block 225 7 9 S Broadway through to 224 6 8 S Hill St Late 1907 added 219 221 223 S Broadway to store Block Curlett amp Eisen demolished site of parking lot1905 1917 Moved to 7th St Ville de Paris 96 000 sq ft 8 900 m2 citation needed 317 325 S Broadway through to 314 322 Hill Street 141 Homer Laughlin Building John B Parkinson Grand Central Market1905 1917 Moved to 7th St J J Haggarty Co New York Store 337 9 S Broadway Independent retail Only 2 stories remain 1909 J M Hale Hale s 341 343 345 S Broadway 149 retail top floors were removedBROADWAY south of 4th St 1896 1973 Moved to B way Plaza The Broadway Dept Store 150 1924 577 000 sq ft 53 600 m2 151 SW corner 4th amp Broadway later through to Hill Junipero Serra State Office Building1904 Silverwoods 1920 115 420 sq ft 10 723 m2 152 556 S Broadway NE corner of 6th Broadway Jewelry Mart1905 Closed Fifth Street Store Steele Faris amp Walker Co Later called Walker s 1917 278 640 sq ft 25 887 m2 153 SW corner 5th amp Broadway Replaced existing store with new building in 1917 153 Building later housed Ohrbach s1906 1986 Moved to FIGat7th Hamburger sAfter 1925 May Company 1906 482 475 sq ft 44 823 4 m2 154 155 1930 gt 1 000 000 sq ft 93 000 m2 156 SW corner 8th amp Broadwayby 1930 entire block 8th 9th Broadway Hill Under renovation to become tech campus1907 1983 Closed opened 1986 at FIGat7th Bullock s 1907 350 000 sq ft 33 000 m2 1934 806 000 sq ft 74 900 m2 157 NW corner 7th amp Broadwayby 1934 most of the block 6th 7th Broadway Hill Parkinson amp Bergstrom St Vincents Jewelry Mart1907 1908 Central Department Store 158 85 000 sq ft 7 900 m2 159 609 619 S Broadway Samuel Tilden Norton Demolished now site of Los Angeles Theatre1910 1960s Mullen amp Bluett 610 S Broadway Walter P Story Bldg 160 Morgan Walls amp Clements Mixed use1917 Blackstone s 118 800 sq ft 11 040 m2 161 901 S Broadway SE corner 9th John Parkinson Building became The Famous now residential retail1924 1972 162 Abandoned Downtown L A Desmond s 85 000 sq ft 7 900 m2 111 616 S Broadway A C Martin 163 Renovated 2019 as office space a restaurant and a rooftop bar 111 1930 1957 164 Eastern Columbia 1930 275 650 sq ft 25 609 m2 165 expanded through to Hill St in 1950 166 849 S Broadway through to Hill Claud Beelman luxury condos1936 144 1938 167 Company liquidated Jacoby Bros 605 S Broadway 144 became a branch of Zukor s 1940 168 now mixed use1947 1980 169 Abandoned Downtown L A Harris amp Frank 2nd downtown location 644 S Broadway Joseph E Carr Bldg Robert Brown Young 170 SEVENTH STREET1915 1993 Abandoned Downtown L A J W Robinson s 1915 400 000 sq ft 37 000 m2 171 1923 623 700 sq ft 57 940 m2 172 7th Hope amp Grand Noonan amp Richards 1915 Edgar Mayberry Allison amp Allison 1934 remodel Mixed use1917 1933 B H Dyas liquidated Ville de Paris from 1919 B H Dyas 420 W 7th SE corner Olive Dodd and Richards L A Jewelry Mart1917 1938 Moved to Miracle Mile Coulter s 500 W 7th SW corner Olive Dodd and Richards Mixed use1917 1963 173 Abandoned Downtown L A Haggarty s Brockman Building 7th amp Grand 174 175 86 176 George D Barnett of Barnett Haynes amp Barnett Apartments1926 1984 177 Barker Bros Abandoned Downtown L A 23 acres 1 000 000 sq ft 93 000 m2 178 818 W 7th Flower to Figueroa Curlett and Beelman Offices1973 open The Broadway 250 000 sq ft 23 000 m2 179 Broadway Plaza 750 W 7th Hope to Flower Charles Luckman Macy s1986 1996 Became duplicate Macy s closed Bullock s Seventh Market Place now FIGat7th Jon Jerde 180 Gold s Gym level M1 Target M2 Zara M3 1986 2009a Became duplicate Macy s closed May Company Nordstrom Rack level M1 Target M2 H amp M M3 aas Macy sPublic transportation editThe Los Angeles Metro Rail s Historic Broadway station is an underground light rail station near the intersection of 2nd and Broadway 181 182 which is served by the E Line east to East Los Angeles and west to Santa Monica and on the A Line northeast to Union Station Pasadena and Azusa and south to Long Beach 183 Metro J Line bus rapid transit BRT has 5 stations adjacent to Broadway in South Los Angeles 37th Street USC Slauson Manchester I 110 Harbor Freeway and Rosecrans These stations are along the Harbor Transitway a dedicated busway between Downtown L A Adams Blvd and the Harbor Gateway near Carson in the median of the Harbor Freeway I 110 just west of Broadway J Line BRT runs as far south as San Pedro and as far northeast as El Monte Metro Local bus line 45 serves most of the length of Broadway between Lincoln Heights through Downtown to the Harbor Freeway Station Local routes 4 30 and 40 serve portions of Broadway downtown See also edit nbsp Los Angeles portalBroadway Theater District Los Angeles List of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monuments in Downtown Los Angeles List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles Theater districts in the United StatesReferences edit National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service April 15 2008 a b c d e f g h i j k Sandra A B 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