Here we have a photo from 1910 showing a Melrose-Ave-bound streetcar passing by Clune’s Auditorium across from Pershing Square (known as Central Park at the time) in downtown LA. The theater opened on November 7, 1906, amid much fanfare because was the largest reinforced concrete structure with the only cantilevered balcony in the world and had largest stage west of New York. In 1915, the landmark (but not necessarily in a good way) film, “Birth of a Nation” had its world premiere here.
Clune’s Auditorium became the home of the LA Philharmonic for decades before the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was built. I used to go to performances there in the 1950’s. It seemed like a perfectly good building so I couldn’t understand why it was torn down and replaced by an eyesore parking lot.