If you’re going to call your movie house the Liberty Theatre, it make sense that you would install a 12-foot Statue-of-Liberty-type figure on top of the roof. This place stood at 266 S. Main Street in downtown Los Angeles from the 1910s .The double bill playing the day this photo was taken was a Clara Bow picture, “The Primrose Path” with “Adventures in the Far North” which places this photo at circa 1925. That’s quite an elaborate three-panel display they’ve got out front—but was it was enough to convince that guy looking at it to buy a ticket? The theater came down around 1930, which leaves me to wonder what happened that facsimile of Lady Liberty.
The Liberty looked rather nice at night, too. This photo is from 1912 when tickets cost only 5 cents.
This is how that block looked in June 2021:
According to imdb, Primrose Path was released in 1925. That night time view of the theater is terrific.
There were two silent movies named “The Primrose Path” but the other one was much earlier so I dated this photo from the 1925 movie.