Description: Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product the biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable. The magnificent movie palaces along Broadway in downtown Los Ang
Brief description: Suzanne Tarbell Cooper is the coauthor of Arcadia Publishing's Los Angeles Art Deco and Long Beach Art Deco. Amy Ronnebeck Hall is the coauthor of Los Angeles Art Deco. Marc Wanamaker, the author of more than a dozen books, owns Bison Archives, one of Southern California's largest repositories of historic photographs, from which these rare images were selected.