Hollywood Pacific Theatre, Movie theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States
Hollywood Pacific Theatre is a movie theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, housed in a Renaissance Revival building designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh. The building combines ground-floor retail spaces with several floors of offices and an oval-shaped auditorium.
The theater opened in 1928 as Warner Bros. Theatre and was one of the first venues in Hollywood built from the start for sound pictures. In 1953, the auditorium was modified to accommodate the new widescreen format that studios had just introduced.
The theater's name reflects its location on the famous boulevard and its role as a cultural gathering place for the neighborhood. The building remains part of the commercial landscape and continues to define the area's character with its distinctive architectural presence.
The building sits on Hollywood Boulevard and is within easy walking distance of the Hollywood/Highland metro station. The surrounding stretch of the boulevard has many other points of interest nearby, so it is easy to combine a visit with a wider walk through the area.
The offices in the building once housed radio station KFWB, and the original rooftop antennas are still visible today. Few buildings on the boulevard carry such a direct physical trace of the early days when film and radio studios shared the same address.
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