Oscar Flashback: The Academy Theater in Inglewood

From Vintage Los Angeles:

Academy Theater in Inglewood, Calif – 1940
Photo by Julius Shulman

Opened on November 7, 1939 and designed by architect S. Charles Lee, the Academy Theater, a classic Art Moderne style structure, was originally designed to house the Academy Awards.

Sadly, however, the Academy Theater never did host the ‘Oscars’, but it was often the location of film premieres and served as a major suburban theater for the Fox West Coast Theatres chain.

The Academy Theater continued to show movies until 1976, when it became a church and that is how it remains today!!