PCAD - Chutes Park Theatre, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres; built works - recreation areas and structures - amusement parks

Aerial view of the site of the Chutes Park Theatre (now a parking lot), Los Angeles, 2017; from Google Maps/Street View

Exterior view of Chutes Theatre (right), Los Angeles, c. 1900; from the Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific Bank Photograph Collection, LAPL00037581

Exterior view of the Chutes Park Theatre (right) and Water Slide (left), Los Angeles, c. 1900; from the Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Item #LAPL00037582

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South Main Street and Washington Boulevard
South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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The Chutes Park Theatre occupied the southwest corner of South Main Street and Washington Boulevard in 1907. Another address given for the theatre was 1501 South Main Street.

Overview

This theatre, part of the Chutes Park amusement complex, was in operation in 1907, one of twenty large theatres operating at that time in Los Angeles, CA. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1907, p. 1928.) It was completed by 12/1900 by the Los Angeles County Improvement Company, the new owners of the property.

Building Notes

The Los Angeles County Improvement Company set about improving its new property in 1899 by building new features, including a large roller coaster, water slide, and the theatre. Chutes Theatre stood next to the chutes water slide. The Mission Revival Chutes Theatre seated 1,400 and featured a changing menu of vaudeville acts.

Demolition

The Chutes Park Theatre, like the rest of the amusement park was torn down. In 2017, a parking lot stood on the site of the former theatre.

PCAD id: 21445

Chutes Park Theatre, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (1900) demolished