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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Valley Music Theatre Photograph Collection
Creator:
Underhill, Larry
Identifier/Call Number: URB.VMT
Extent:
0.21 linear feet
Date: 2006
Abstract: Photographer Larry Underhill was hired
by the Los Angeles Conservancy to take photographs of the Valley Music Theatre immediately
prior to its demolition in 2006. The collection consists of forty-six silver gelatin
photographs taken by Underhill, as well as documentation of the theater designed by Hawkins
and Lindsey, Architects.
Language of Material: English
In 2006, Larry Underhill was hired by the Los Angeles Conservancy to take the last pictures
of the building before it was demolished by the wrecking ball in the fall of 2006, too late
for the Conservancy to place the Valley Music Theatre before the landmarks commission.
The Valley Music Theatre opened on July 6, 1964. The Theatre was located at 20600 Ventura
Boulevard in Woodland Hills between the Ventura Freeway exits at Winnetka and Canoga
Avenues. Designed by the firm Hawkins and Lindsey, the theatre was the project of local
developers and businessmen Nick Mayo, Randolph Hale, and Cy Warner, who intended it to be
the first professional performing arts center in the San Fernando Valley.
In 1980, the theatre was sold to and became a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall. When the
Jehovah's Witnesses' membership outgrew the size of the building in 2004, they sold the
property to a local developer who planned on demolishing the theatre to build housing and
retail stores on the property.
The
Valley Music Theatre Photograph Collection consists of
forty-six silver gelatin photographs taken by Underhill, as well as documentation of the
theater designed by Hawkins and Lindsey, Architects. Photographer Larry Underhill was hired
by the Los Angeles Conservancy to take photographs of the Valley Music Theatre immediately
prior to its demolition in 2006.
Related Material
The collection is open to research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Larry Underhill, 2007
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Robert G. Marshall, Jennifer Dandurand, 2008
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