I confess to having now become weirdly obsessed with the development of SCE's lobby tree over the years (which means you're going to have to suffer right along with me). To wit:
1934:
1944:
1952:
ca. 1960:
A recent shot of the lobby—note those wonderful hanging lanterns have gone missing:
dalewilcoxphotography
One wonders if there's a recently-felled-from-the-High-Sierras thirty-foot spruce now standing, tinsel-choked, in the lobby today. I doubt it. Yet with the
promised restoration to its 1930s glory, will the tradition return? (Plus I bet the
acoustics are amazing.)