PCAD - Bard's West Adams Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

1898 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90018-2712

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Northwest corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and West Adams Street;

Louis L. Bard financed the construction of the Bard's West Adams Theatre in Los Angeles, CA; Arthur Bard and Company was its builder; Los Angeles architects, Gable and Wyant, were listed as having been the original architects on this project in 03/1924; by 01/1925, however, L.A. Smith of Los Angeles, well-known for motion picture theatre architecture in Los Angeles, had taken over work on the Bard's West Adams Theatre;

This theatre, seating 496, operated from 1925 to c. 1950.

Altered to become retail space.

PCAD id: 2415

Publications

"Theater for West Adams", Los Angeles Examiner, part IV: 7, 2/15/1925. "New theatre underway", Los Angeles Times, part V: 2, 2/1/1925. "Bard's West Adams Theatre, Los Angeles", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 51, col. 2, 2/15/1924. "Bard's West Adams Theatre Gable and Wyant", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 47, col. 3, 3/14/1924. "Bard's West Adams Theatre construction", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 55, col. 1, 1/30/1925.

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Bard's West Adams Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (1924-1925)

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