Art-deco Warner Grand Theatre - 1931

            The historic Warner Grand Theatre in downtown San Pedro, California. Now on the register of historic places. This lavish Art-Deco theater opened in 1931 with a star-studded gala premier. It was designed by B. Marcus Prieca who had formerly been the "house architect" for the Pantages Theater chain. The Warner Brothers hired the architect to build three lavish Art-Deco Palaces located in San Pedro, Beverly Hills and Huntington Beach, California.

The Warner Grand Theatre is the last of the three original theaters left intact. It is one of the few remaining theaters of its kind anywhere. It boasted an opulent lobby with decorative ceilings, etched glass chandeliers and colorfully-tiled fountains. A double staircase led to equally ornate mezzanine lounges. The auditorium included such details as floral stenciling on the ceilings, period lighting fixtures, lavish organ screens, and a curtain featuring a castle rising from the sea, in keeping with the theater's billing as "The Castle of Your Dreams". It was the first sound-equipped theater in all of the South Bay. As with virtually all of the theaters of that day, it was designed to accommodate traveling vaudeville circuits with a full stage house, orchestra pit and basement designed for dressing rooms, but unfortunately stage performances were never pursued under the Warner Brothers flag.

Today, the Theatre is managed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and is home to regular foreign and classic film series, musicals, plays, concerts, graduations and many other events. Active restoration is underway and the Warner Grand is well on the way to being returned to it's former glory. It is on the National register of historic places.

The Warner Grand has, since 1985, welcomed film and video shoots. Most recently, scenes for the Annette Bening film "Running With Scissors" were filmed here. 

Edited with Windows Live Photo Gallery, which doesn't give a lot of options, by compositing two photos, then used a second copy of the same image to edit the lighting difference between the marquee and the ceiling lights; finally, I blended to 2 edited photos into the one. The lower white neon 'Warner Grand' is a bit too bright. Partly caused by the angle the photo was taken at. 

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