Went to a show recently at the restored Los Angeles Theatre - Beyond Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 2:40 PM ....AND don't forget the UNITED ARTISTS, wow what a place! I used to take foreign visitors on a tour of the Broadway theaters downtown LA when they were still running Mexican movies, one could just walk in and marvel at the architecture. The Mayan was showing porno movies then: Imagine a giant screen with red lit copulation close ups flanked by precolumbian idols, the few remaing believers staring at it like a pagan ritual. I off course liked the fact that they were kind of run down then, it felt more like urban archeology.... We can thank the Hispanics who took over downtown for actually LIKING the pomp of those theaters and keeping it unaltered because it went along with their aesthetic sensibilities, rather than renovating it away as was done with the Egyptian and most other movie palaces around town. And then off course the LA conservancy for keeping it going.... [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2003-01-30 14:46 ]

....AND don't forget the UNITED ARTISTS, wow what a place! I used to take foreign visitors on a tour of the Broadway theaters downtown LA when they were still running Mexican movies, one could just walk in and marvel at the architecture. The Mayan was showing porno movies then: Imagine a giant screen with red lit copulation close ups flanked by precolumbian idols, the few remaing believers staring at it like a pagan ritual.

I off course liked the fact that they were kind of run down then, it felt more like urban archeology....

We can thank the Hispanics who took over downtown for actually LIKING the pomp of those theaters and keeping it unaltered because it went along with their aesthetic sensibilities, rather than renovating it away as was done with the Egyptian and most other movie palaces around town. And then off course the LA conservancy for keeping it going....

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2003-01-30 14:46 ]

Post #21405 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 2:40 PM