Over the years, The Tower Theater was known by two other marquee namesmdash the Newsreel and Music Hall-but returned to the Tower name after the theater underwent a major renovation in the early 1960's. In its later years, however, it was operated consecutively by the Pacific Theaters and Metropolitan Theaters Corporation chains. In the 1940's and early 1950's it ran newsreel films (prior to the popularity of television news coverage). The Tower had been independently operated for the first several decades of its existence.
THE TOWER THEATRE MOVIE
Due to the limited configuration of the property, it was designed mainly for movie presentation.
Contrary to popular rumor, the Tower never hosted vaudeville shows because it did not have a deep enough stage or backstage. Gumbiner, decided to commission architect Lee to design his even grander Los Angeles Theater two blocks north, the original pipe organ was eventually moved to that location in 1931. The Tower originally had a style 216 Wurlitzer pipe organ that was installed to accompany silent movies, but when the theater's original owner, H. It has had an illustrious history for a smaller scale theater that mainly showed movies. The Tower was designed in the French Renaissance motif with Spanish, Romanesque and Moorish influences. The theater, at the southeast corner of Broadway & 8th Street, was also the original sneak preview location for the famed Warner Brothers movie The Jazz Singer (1927). Charles Lee as well as the first movie palace in downtown to be wired for sound films. It was the first theater designed by renowned architect S.
The Tower Theater opened in 1927 at 802 S.
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