Going by this eye-catching display from around 1950, it looks like the Carlin’s Cinema Sports Center at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard (near Cherokee Ave) offered something for everybody: cinema, bowling, pool, fountain café and juice bar, gift store (“Send a gift from Hollywood”), a public rumpus room (a games room with ping pong tables, dart boards, table top shuffle board, etc), and a barber shop. All that and free parking. Talk about your one-stop family entertainment destination.
This 1957 video screengrab showing building on the right with the “BOWLING” blade sign:
In a different incarnation, it was the News-View theater that exclusively ran newsreels:
I didn’t know that public rumpus rooms were a thing until I found this photo. Even Mike Lyman had one when he ran his place on Hill Street in downtown L.A. This is taken from the May 1956 Los Angeles Street Address Directory:
Going by this eye-catching display from around 1950, it looks like the Carlin’s Cinema Sports Center at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard (near Cherokee Ave) offered something for everybody: cinema, bowling, pool, fountain café and juice bar, gift store (“Send a gift from Hollywood”), a public rumpus room (a games room with ping pong tables, dart boards, table top shuffle board, etc), and a barber shop. All that and free parking. Talk about your one-stop family entertainment destination.
I remember that building from the late 1950s and early 1960s as the News-Vue Theatre where continuous newsreels were shown.
Jim
Nope, the New-View was a block east of Carlin’s at 6657.
Looks like it had a pretty long run at that Hollywood Blvd location. I found it in the 1942 and 56 city directories. https://i.imgur.com/AoGFdGb.jpg
Thank you, J! I searched the city directories until a number of terms and came up blank. Much appreciated!
Yep, I did the same thing MT. It was the screen capture you posted that put me on the right track. I looked for a Kress store on Hollywood Blvd.
That’s for persisting!
Actually, it did not become the News-View, New-View, Pussycat Theater – that was at 6657 – Carlin’s was a block to the east.
Thanks for that clarification, Bruce.