PCAD - Toyo-Za, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: Oriental Theatre, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA; Oriental Theater, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

East First Street and Alameda Street
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA 90012

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This was the second motion picture theatre serving the Japanese-American population in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo; it opened after 1907 and had closed by 1918;

The theatre staged only theatrical performances by April 1916; Toyo-za had changed ownership by December 1916;

PCAD id: 1451

Publications

Ogihara Junko, "The Exhibition of Films for Japanese Americans in Los Angeles during the Silent Film Era", Film History, 4: 2, 82-83, 1990.