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Title:

Tower Theatre. 1935-1936 - Compton

Creator:

Watson Airfotos

Description:

Designed for a working class community in Los Angeles, the Tower Theater is a modest design which presents a stylish black and white Deco exterior (62701). The night view shows the effective use of neon and spotlighting to illuminate the fluted Moderne tower (62702). The box office is surrounded by circles of light bulbs on the lobby ceiling and a sunburst design on the lobby's terrazzo floor (62703). Poster cases are framed by scrolled pediments and simulated columns. The interior uses exaggerated columns, mirrors, white traditional-style furniture, and gilt to suggest a palatial elegance that is distant from the lives of the theatre's clientele (62704-62705). Hanging lanterns and striped upholstery in the auditorium impart a subdued elegance (62706- 62707).

Publisher:

University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.

Date:

1935-1936

Format:

Facade day 8 × 10.

Identifier:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6g5020xt

Box 6

Folder 27