Warner Grand Theatre

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caption = Warner Grand Theater, 2008
location= 478 W. 6th St.
San Pedro, California
lat_degrees = 33
lat_minutes = 44
lat_seconds = 19
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 118
long_minutes = 17
long_seconds = 29
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
architect= B. Marcus Priteca
architecture= Art Deco, Moderne
added = January 21, 1999
governing_body = Local
refnum=98001633cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Warner Grand Theatre is an historic movie palace which was opened on January 20, 1931. It is located in San Pedro, California, at 478 West 6th Street in the United States of America.

The design of the Warner Grand Theatre was a collaboration by architect B. Marcus Priteca and interior designer Anthony Heinsbergen. It was one of three similarly lavish Los Angeles area art-deco movie palaces on which Priteca and Heinsbergen collaborated for the Warner Bros. company in the early 1930s. The others were located in Beverly Hills, and Huntington Park. Priteca later designed Hollywood's famous Pantages Theatre.

The Warner Beverly Hills Theatre has been demolished, and the Huntington Park Warner, closed for many years, has been extensively altered, leaving the Grand as the last of the three original theaters remaining intact. By the mid 1990's it had suffered a lengthy period of neglect, despite having been declared a historical and cultural monument of the city in 1982. The theater was facing possible demolition or re-development when, in 1995, a local group of activists formed the Grand Vision Foundation to work for the preservation of the historic building. Their efforts were successful when the theater was purchased by the Cultural Affairs Department (later renamed the Department of Cultural affairs) of the City of Los Angeles in 1996. Efforts to both restore and program the theater have been ongoing since the acquisition. That same year, the Grand Vision Foundation incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation, to preserve and promote the Warner Grand Theatre. In 1999, the Warner was added to the National Register of Historic Places as building #98001633.

Warner Grand Theatre currently hosts foreign films, art films and family films presented by Cinema Grand, it also boasts three organizations in residence, the Golden State Pops Orchestra, The Relevant Stage Theatre Company, and Midnight Insanity.

Trivia

* Jack Warner called it "The Castle of Your Dreams."
* The Warner Grand Theatre has also been used as a location in some movies, including "Pearl Harbor" in 2001.

ee also

* List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
* List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area

References

External links

* [http://www.warnergrand.org/ Official Warner Grand Theatre Website]
* [http://www.culturela.org/ Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs]
* [http://www.therelevantstage.org/ The Relevant Stage Theatre Company]
* [http://www.grandvision.org/ The Grand Vision Foundation]