L.A.’s Vaudeville-Era Granada Theater Named Historic-Cultural Monument
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deadline.comThe Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to designate the 95-year-old Granada Theater in Wilmington as a historic-cultural monument.The 1,000-seat venue opened its doors in 1926 to host vaudeville acts.
It changed owners numerous times and over the decades has been used as a performance arts center, filming location, World War II-era movie house and Spanish cinema theater, among other purposes, according to the group Friends of the Wilmington Granada.The organization has been working to raise money and reopen the theater as an independent movie house and performance center, now that the church that occupied the building for the past 15 years has moved out. “Reopening the Wilmington Granada theater will not only create jobs but will
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