One of my favorite theaters in Los Angeles is the Warner Bros Theatre that stood at 9404 Wilshire Blvd at Canon Drive in Beverly Hills, from 1931 to the late 1980s. I especially love the tower that soared into the sky over the building. It was striking during the daytime, but must have been a real eyeful at night, lit up like the way we can see it in this 1931 photo. The theater opened on May 19, 1931 with a George Arliss movie called “The Millionaire” so the shot we’re seeing here would have been taken not long after that because the movie playing that night, “The Finger Points,” opened in the US the month before.

Warner Bros Beverly Hills Theatre inaugural program, May 19, 1931:

Today, that site is now a – yes, you guessed it – parking lot for the neighboring building. Oh well, at least it now got some rather picturesque palm trees out front. This image is from March 2021.