PCAD - Hamburger Building, Hamburger Playhouse, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: Hamburger Building, Majestic Theatre, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; Majestic Theater, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - department stores; built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - performing arts structures - performing arts structures

Broadway and 9th Street
Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

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Building History

The "Hamburger Playhouse" later known as the Majestic Theatre, opened in 11/1908 in the Hamburger Building.

Building Notes

This theatre, referred to in early newspaper reports as the "Hamburger Playhouse," opened in the new, $1,750,000 Hamburger Building, which also housed the Hamburger Department Store, the Main Los Angeles Public Library, and offices in 1908.

R.C. Williams, a dealer in theatre equipment and property, occupied Office 304 in the Majestic Theatre Building in 1931.

PCAD id: 1930

Publications

Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 190, 1970. "Hamburger Playhouse opens", Grizzly Bear, 12, 12/1908.

Hamburger Building, Hamburger Playhouse, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA (1908)

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