Arcade (Pantages), Los Angeles

Arcade (Pantages), Los Angeles Image by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Arcade, 534 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States.

The Arcade was built in 1910 as a vaudeville theatre for Alexander Pantages. The architects Morgan, Walls, & Morgan designed the Pantages as an English music hall. Its original seating capacity was 1400. It served Pantages for a decade before the second Pantages was constructed at 7th & Hill.The Pantages was renamed Dalton’s in 1920.

In 1928, it was again renamed, now as the Arcade to associate it with the new Broadway Arcade Building and it became exclusively a cinema. Later it was also known as the Telenews Theatre (1942) and the Teleview Theatre (1940 – 1945). During the 1980′s the Arcade theatre was a grind house (a theatre that runs three to four features in a day). It closed in 1992. Currently a store runs out of the Arcade’s lobby area. In that move the Arcade lost it’s free standing box office. The auditorium is still intact minus seats in the lower level. It is now used for storage.

Sources: Cinema Treasures and Downtown Los Angeles Theatres .