The 1660-seat Fox Ritz Theater was one of Fox’s major movie palaces in the 1930s and 40s. This circa 1940s night photo shows us the view looking west down Wilshire Blvd from Sycamore Ave. The theater was pulled down in 1977 and replaced by the mother of all LA clichés: a parking lot. But we can glimpse the E. Clem Wilson Building on the far right and the Dominguez-Wilshire building in the distance. They are both still with us, so two out of three ain’t bad.
A clearer, daytime shot taken much earlier, before Fox took it over:
The 1660-seat Fox Ritz Theater was one of Fox’s major movie palaces in the 1930s and 40s. This circa 1940s night photo shows us the view looking west down Wilshire Blvd from Sycamore Ave. The theater was pulled down in 1977 and replaced by the mother of all LA clichés: a parking lot. But we can glimpse the E. Clem Wilson Building on the far right and the Dominguez-Wilshire building in the distance. They are both still with us, so two out of three ain’t bad.
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