This rare photograph of Court Street was originally found on ebay. [undated]
ebay / no longer listed
"An undated view of 16 Court Street (later 114 Court Street*), here unused as a theater.
The photograph shows the south side of Court St. with 114 Court Street at the center.
The storefront is something called L.C. Steel's -- 114 and 116 are visible on two of its doors.
Upstairs are the "Corona Rooms."
Main is down at the left, Spring St. is around the corner to the right." -
The building began life October 18, 1890 as the
Tivoli Theatre, but the Tivoli didn't last long.
By December 1890 it was closed and furniture sold to pay its debts. The Tivoli was operated
by the Perry brothers (E.H. and J. H).
info from
Downtown Los Angeles Theaters
New life as the
New Vienna Buffet
Sometime prior to 1894 the building reopened as the New Vienna Buffet and gained a reputation as a DEN of VICE.
We touched on some of the VICE earlier on NLA.
link > > >
Den of Vice
the earlier post includes this photograph of the New Vienna Buffet (middle of pic)
detail / complete (colorize) pic here:
rCarlton
HossC included this section in a panorama here:
Panorama
In the 1894 city directory shows the site as "restaurant, wines, liquors, amusement hall, F. Kerkow, prop. 10-16 Court."
The 'Vienna was listed with the new 114-116 Court St. address in an 1895 Chamber of Commerce members list.
1894 Sanborn Map
https://sites.google.com/site/downto...stheatres/Home
The Cineograph
The building that housed the defunct 'New Vienna Buffet' reopened as the Cineograph in September 1902 with a combination of movies and vaudeville
with the movie bill changing daily. It lasted as the Cineograph at least into 1910.
1910
Baist map
http://www.historicmapworks.com/
As far as I know, there are no photographs of the building when it was the Cineograph Theater.
I even checked
Cinema Treasures. They have it listed...but no photographs
So get to work sleuths!
side-note:
The
original Vienna Buffet was located in the basement of a new building at Main and Requena St.
as reported in the January 25, 1888 Los Angeles Herald. (Requena St. was later renamed Market St.)
Does anyone know what building was located at Requena & Main in 1888?
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