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<\/a><\/p>\nWhile presently serving as a standard basement (storage and support system duties), prior to the theatre\u2019s late 50\u2019s \u201cWindjammer\u201d\/Cinemiracle remodel, the basement area featured a much higher ceiling and was home to Grauman\u2019s prolog show pre-staging areas (dressing rooms, rehearsal space, etc.). One of the few remnants of the area\u2019s former use stands in the form of two partial staircases which once lead to the stage.<\/p>\n
Providing a bit of a mystery, there are also a couple of areas which have retained bits of their finished walls and feature scraps of what looks to be wallpaper for a children\u2019s room. While child care rooms were an amenity of many movie palaces of the day, Grauman\u2019s never promoted such a service to the public. At best, one might speculate that a children\u2019s room once existed for theatre workers and\/or prolog cast.<\/p>\n In addition to the theatre\u2019s underbelly, the tour went behind the screen, to the projection booth, and in to Sid Grauman\u2019s one time office; minor notes of disappointment in how little of the once impressive stage remains behind the screen\/sound baffle and how Mr. Grauman\u2019s former office is now quite modern in appearance.<\/p>\n The LAHTF conducts such tours, of numerous historic theatres, on a semiannual basis. If you\u2019ve ever had an interest in seeing the \u201coff limits\u201d areas of a classic theatre, desired to visit a long closed venue, and\/or just wanted to learn more about the many cinema gems that dot Los Angeles, check out their site<\/a> for future events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation conducted another one of their fascinating \u201cAll About\u201d tours this past weekend; covering Grauman\u2019s Chinese this time around. Among the numerous non public areas featured was the theatre\u2019s subterranean level. While presently serving as a standard basement (storage and support system duties), prior to the theatre\u2019s late 50\u2019s \u201cWindjammer\u201d\/Cinemiracle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n