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Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres
Designers: Burgin, W.J., Building Contractor (firm); Stanbery, Floyd E., Structural Engineer (firm); William Jay Burgin (building contractor); Floyd Edgar Stanbery (structural engineer)
Dates: constructed 1936-1937
L.T. Edwards owned the theatre and store building at 525 American Avenue in Long Beach, CA, and engaged structural engineer, Floyd E. Stanbery, to prepare its plans; cost was set at an inexpensive $45,000; W.J. Burgin acted as contractor; the theatre seated 1100 people and was composed of reinforced concrete construction in response to the devastating earthquake that struck Long Beach at 5:55 AM, 3/10/1933.
Demolished to make way for a mall that itself was unsuccessful;
PCAD id: 3201
