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Title:
Tumbleweed Theatre. 1939 - Five Points (El Monte)
Creator:
S. Charles Lee
Description:
One of Lee's few realized theme theatres (as in theme restaurant), the Tumbleweed recreates for recent immigrants to Los Angeles the farmstead of the Great Plains. Built on a large site in the rural suburb of El Monte, the theatre's auditorium takes the form of a Midwestern barn, with buttress-like dormers. To attract attention to the theatre, Lee used the form of the Plains windmill, a feature used at every farm to pump water from an underground well. Note on reverse: Architect's original conception --- Note how closely the finished building matches the rendering.
Publisher:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Date:
1939
Format:
Perspective sketch Architect's original conception 8 × 10.
Identifier:
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3r29q1tp
Box 7
Folder 5