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Anaheim’s Brookhurst and Brookhurst Loge Theatres were razed on 2/27/14 . Given the numerous struggles the site had experienced in recent decades, this news was seemingly long overdue. Yet, there remains a sense of shock and sadness in seeing the inevitable come to pass. From the glory days, as one of Orange County’s premiere single […]

The Academy Awards when they were held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (host of the ceremony from 1944 to 1946). Some seven decades later, the 86th Academy Awards go about the far less glamorous routine of post ceremony cleanup outside the Dolby Theatre (directly behind the Chinese).

In recognition of this evening’s 86th Academy Awards ceremony, here is a picture of Sid Grauman being awarded his honorary Oscar for “raising the standard for film exhibition of motion pictures” at the 21st Academy Awards, held on March 24, 1949 (roughly a year before his death on March 5, 1950). In addition to being […]