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Deborah Pardes
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NEON MUSEUM LOS ANGELES SWELL WALKABOUT

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I'm going to take a photo of the neon art as the Doe Center. The tour guide shows it to us and capture his stories. Neon is actually a really interesting form of art. There's a huge Museum in Las Vegas, but I'm going to put a link here to the neon Museum in Los Angeles, and I'll try to capture this experience for you. And I hope I do a good job job

https://www.neonmona.org/ #outandabout

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:35

Neon Bending

Women are focusing their attention on being neon benders more now than ever. And I'm really surprised. A few years ago we did an exhibition called she Bends, and it was focused exactly on female artists who do their own bending, their own craft work. And that makes a big difference. It's not just someone designing, it's someone who is hands on, working with the molten glass, bending over an open flame, and then electrifying this medium
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:39

Liz Traub

See the history, see the cool architecture. It's a way to really enjoy the city that you normally just drive past. There was a car. When you walk, you see the city differently. Yes, exactly. And were you interested in neon before this? I love bright lights. I do like it. But it definitely increased my interest in neon for sure
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:33
They kept that neon sign restored it completely. That original 1930s gigantic neon sign is still with us. Thanks to the folks at the freehand hotel. That hotel has another secret and you're not going to believe me. You're not going to believe me. Believe it or not, that street olive street was widened in the owners of this building rather than demolished olive street facade of the building hired house movers and they picked up the entire front of the building and moved it 5ft
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:18

Secret Warner Bros. marquee

Warner brothers theater. Wow. We're looking at a theater that has a hidden crest that shows that Warner brothers once owned it. And you can only see it in the neon, but it's daylight, so you can't see it. 21 theater for the pantageous chain of vaudeville shows. So the pantageous name had a full stage, but it also showed movies. It had a balcony, it had an Orchestra pit, and they were ready for all of your vaudeville needs
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:19

Michael Hayden‘s generator of the cylinder

Enjoy the flashing beautiful colors of Michael Hayden's Generator of the Cylinder. We're going to take a left hand turn and keep walking towards Broadway
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:28

Los Angeles beautiful

Favorite architect. Los Angeles Theater, 1931. This theater for HL Gumbiner. He opened it just on the Eve of the Great Depression. Within a year, Ho Gunbiner lost his shirt and the theater was no longer his. It has undergone many changes, but during World War II, the theater was in operation. It operated 22 hours a day, closed from 04:00 A.m. To 06:00 A.m. For cleaning
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:31

Palace Theater

This particular theater has two balconies, and it's very shallow so that the people on stage can scream and sing to the very back row. The other big deal about this theater from 1911 is that it does have interrupted views. The balconies are not free supporting balconies. They have columns supporting those balconies. We don't have that today because we have since invented steel I beams. These balconies are interrupted, and those supports help keep those two balconies from collapsing. Yes, that's a big deal needed
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:47

Cliftons cafeteria

Once you walk inside, it is a themed environment. And that themed environment is a Redwood forest with waterfalls and taxidermy Moose and squirrel. You have to see it to believe it. There's nothing like it on the planet. And d***, I missed that Mac and cheese. I missed that Mac and cheese. Yes, it's still there. Yes. She mentioned that they had the oldest neon sign in Los Angeles. Oldest operating neon sign in Los Angeles. In the basement
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:04

The globe theater

I hope you can hear this, this story that I like to tell and I have proof behind me that there was a Spanish language wax Museum on the upper floor, the second floor of this particular theater, Spanish language wax Museum, wax Museum. You could enter the theater itself at a discounted rate from the balcony and see a movie inside. Yes, she does. That is a true collector. And I'm jealousy is all about a Spanish language wax Museum. I love that stuff
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:51

Tower theater turns to Apple Store

It's just beautiful to see. So this is S. Charles Lee's movie theater. And it was the first movie theater built in Los Angeles for Sack. Oh, my God. There's always an asterisk to that. Phil would know. So this particular movie theater is S. Charles Lee's first movie theater. He was about 27 years old when he was hired by HL Gumbiner to do the job
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:35

Rialto theater

It is the old May company Department store, originally the hamburger Department store. Those letter HS stand for the hamburger Department store. It later became the May company. But the building itself does it in under scaffolding right now. And it should have opened by now. But they ran out of funding. This particular building was going to be turned into hotel and office space. I believe a few condominiums were attached, but it is solid
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:22

Broadway Bar

Talking about the Broadway Bar sign. It's not vintage, but it's fashioned as a 1950s look, gigantic circular bar with a chandelier in the middle. It's something that you just don't see outside of the nineties anymore. Just behind me, the Orphia
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:59

Orpheum

When it came to this one, the orphan theater, we were fundraising we would do spookathons every Halloween with like five movies a night. Discounted you came in costume and we would have horror movie after horror movie after horror movie. Some of the best double, triple, quadruple quintuple features I've ever, ever seen. Amazing stuff. And yes, I even got to clean the chandeliers. This particular theater has four chandeliers in the lobby and they're cranked down and two massive chandeliers in the auditorium itself
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:48

United artist theater

His p*** star wife, Pastor Melissa she wound up selling the property and making a pretty nickel off of it and moving the Parish over to Glendale she sold it very sensitively to the Ace Hotel chain, which never owned a theater before but they had operated hotels, they built a brand new hotel in that tower, Excellent and they wound up renovating the theater as well they have been maintaining that theater beautifully It has never operated any better than it is right now because out of all the historic theaters on the street, out of all twelve of them, that theater was the commercial worst performer out of all the theaters, it was a massive failure commercially from day one, it was opened by the United Artists Theatre chain they looked at Los Angeles in the 1920s and they said, look at all of Los Angeles, Los Angeles is going to be growing this way and it didn't, it grew that way west towards the ocean so that theater, which was operated by the United Artist Theater chain, gave up pretty d*** quickly Nobody crossed the street to see that theater out of this huge commercial hub with so many Department stores, the Eastern Department store, the May Company, out of all these Department stores, people would look at all of these theaters, get to this point on 9th street and go, oh, that's just too far away to walk and they didn't go, nobody went, they tried their best Even when Cinnamon came into existence, they're like, Well, let's rip out one of our two balconies, let's move the film projectors from up here to down here and let's knock out the proscenium arch in order to widen the screen for Cinera and everyone will come here, Tordeto, they will come down here to see Oklahoma, thank you, they will come down here to see Oklahoma and nobody did nobody did all that effort
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:58

Thank you Eric !

And I think every city probably has gems like this. And it's just fun to learn about the history. Oh, my God. La history is so deep and beautiful in terms of the kinds of innovations that were happening here, not just in theater, obviously, but just in business. I learned so much today. And neon is such a symbol of just lighting up towns with artistry and with a message of like, we are open, we are here, and we are celebrating
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