Golden Gate Theater, Historic movie theater in East Los Angeles, United States.

The Golden Gate Theater is a former movie theater on South Atlantic Boulevard in East Los Angeles, built in the Mediterranean Revival style. Its most visible feature is the richly carved entrance portal, which draws on the facade of the University of Salamanca in Spain.

Built in 1927 for Peter Snyder, the "Father of the East Side," the theater was designed by William and Clifford A. Balch, architects of the El Rey and Pomona Fox theaters. It opened as a legitimate playhouse equipped for films, seating nearly 1,500 within an L-shaped retail block, the Vega Building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, closed in 1986, and reopened in 2012 as a CVS Pharmacy.

The entrance copies the portal of the University of Salamanca in Spain, a detail visitors can compare with photographs of the original. Since 2012 the former 1,500-seat auditorium has housed a CVS Pharmacy, so the building is used as a shop rather than a cinema. The Los Angeles Conservancy long campaigned to keep the proscenium arch, lobby and balcony.

The exterior of the building can be seen freely from the street, which is the main reason most visitors stop here. The interior now operates as a retail space, so access inside is limited to the store's regular opening hours.

The theater's entrance copies the portal of the University of Salamanca in Spain, a detail the Los Angeles Conservancy cited when it counted fewer than two dozen Spanish Churrigueresque buildings left in the city. The 1927 opening was announced in the Los Angeles Times as a 1,500-seat legitimate playhouse equipped for films, with thirteen stores and apartments around it.