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Old Posted Mar 19, 2014, 8:53 PM
CityBoyDoug CityBoyDoug is offline
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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas View Post
Not really desiring to be argumentative but I have been unable to find any supporting evidence that anything but the mosaic was saved from the 1932 Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. Sad if true.

http://historylosangeles.blogspot.co...1_archive.html


Looks like pretty much a total demolition underway to me and the only reference that I can find to anything having been saved has to do with the mosaic created in 1938 by the WPA.

http://historylosangeles.blogspot.co...1_archive.html
Here is the part of the auditorium that was saved and incorporated into the new theater. [outlined in orange] How do I know this? I used to live 5 blocks from this site and watched the entire process. I kept wondering why they did not demo the entire structure. As the months went by I could see they were using the old stage and theatrical fly structure for the new building. This saved them a lot of money. The yellow arrow shows the old fly structure as it appears today being incorporated into the new structure.

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