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28-495: The neighborhood of Carthay comprises Carthay Circle , Carthay Square and South Carthay . As delineated by the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project , Carthay is bounded on the north by Wilshire Boulevard , on the east by Fairfax Avenue , on the south by Pico Boulevard , on the west by La Cienega Boulevard and on the northwest by Schumacher and Tower Drives. It is flanked by Beverly–Fairfax to

56-651: A fanciful larger-scale replica of the theater building was opened in the Buena Vista Street section of Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim , California. Although this replica is larger than the Orlando version, it is still slightly smaller than the 1926 original, and has a modified exterior footprint and interior floorplan. While there is no actual theatre inside,

84-580: A theatre "masked as a cathedral". There was a drop curtain that featured an homage to the pioneer Donner Party that perished crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains . Bronze busts of Native American leaders and photographs of Edwin Booth , Herbert Beerbohm Tree , Sarah Bernhardt , Eleanora Duse , Ellen Terry , Lillie Langtry , and other 19th century actors adorned the lounges and lobbies. Murals of historic scenes 40 feet tall graced

112-550: Is a statue by Henry Lion that was designed as part of a fountain in Carthay Circle Park. Standing about seven feet tall and weighing 512 pounds, it was installed on September 25, 1924. Also known as "Dan the Miner", the statue went missing in 2009. It has been stolen during a rash of robberies spawned by rising copper prices. The statue was recovered, repaired, and reinstalled in 2010. Historical markers placed in

140-543: Is also noted for creating the master plan for the neighboring city of Beverly Hills). McCarthy named the streets in honor of prominent figures of the California Gold Rush. He also planned the neighborhood around a shopping center. Carthay Circle was one of the first planned communities in Los Angeles, and the first in the city to feature underground utilities. The success of Carthay Circle served as

168-539: The 136-acre, mainly Spanish Revival, community. No two homes are alike due to the rule that all homes had to be designed individually by an architect, and notable designers such as Irving Gill , Paul Williams and Robert Byrd contributed to the neighborhood. The master plan for Carthay Circle was designed by leading early 20th century architects Aleck Curlett and his partner Claud Beelman (designer of MGM Studios and Downtown LA's Eastern Columbia Building) in conjunction with landscape architects Cook & Hall (Wilbur D. Cook

196-587: The 1960s the "roadshow" concept, and, indeed, the Carthay Circle Theater itself, was considered an anachronism , overshadowed by modern multi-screen cinemas. Its customer base had also been sapped by suburbanization , and many other economic factors, as film print runs increased almost exponentially from a few, high-quality, high-resolution prints (often "wide gauge"), to literally thousands, or even several thousands of average-quality, lower-resolution prints (usually "standard gauge"). The theater

224-662: The Carthay Circle HPOZ, South Carthay HPOZ, and the Carthay Square HPOZ. There is one school within Carthay's boundaries—Carthay Center Elementary, a K–6 school at 6351 West Olympic Boulevard. Starting in Fall 2014, Carthay Center Elementary became Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet , a residential full-school magnet. Spaces are reserved for students in the traditional attendance boundaries, but

252-557: The Carthay Circle HPOZ: Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, English Tudor Revival, French Eclectic, Monterey Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Minimal Traditional. Objectives of the HPOZ include: Safeguarding the character of historic buildings and sites and recognizing and protecting the historic streetscape and development patterns. Carthay Circle Theatre The Carthay Circle Theatre

280-615: The Wind (1939) were displayed on the grassy median of McCarthy Vista, from Wilshire Boulevard south to San Vicente Boulevard. The premieres were red-carpet events, with the stars of the motion picture arriving in limousines at the entrance to the covered walkway to the theater south from San Vicente and cheered by hundreds of fans in bleachers there, accompanied by searchlights scanning the sky. Only Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood also had such elaborate premieres in that era. In 1951

308-484: The Wind , inspired the community to change the name from “Carthay Center” to “Carthay Circle.” The theater was demolished in 1969 to make way for a new office complex, 1 Carthay Plaza, today known as Carthay Campus, designed in the mid-century Brutalist architectural style. A large-scale replica of Carthay Circle Theater opened in 2012 at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. In November 1983, with

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336-639: The area by the Native Sons of the Golden West and Founders of Carthay Center include: Portolá Trail 1769, Juan Bautista de Anza, Daniel O. McCarthy, "Snowshoe" Thompson and Jedediah Strong Smith. The Carthay Circle Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) adopting ordinance became effective on July 24, 1998. The Carthay Circle preservation plan was adopted by the City of Los Angeles on December 9, 2010. The following architectural styles are present in

364-608: The catalyst for the growth of the entire Mid-City area. The main feature of the neighborhood was the Carthay Circle Theatre , the “Showplace of the Golden West," that opened May 18, 1926 and soon became the focal point of Carthay Center. The theater, site of film premieres including Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (their first full-length animated film) and the West Coast premiere of Gone with

392-427: The city as a whole. The median household income in 2008 dollars was $ 71,398, considered to be a high figure in Los Angeles. The percentage of households earning $ 125,000 or more was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 2.1 people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 64.7% of the housing units, and home- or apartment owners the rest. In 2000, there were 168 military veterans, 4.1% of

420-467: The famed Carthay Circle Theatre . The neighborhood is bounded by Wilshire Boulevard to the north, Olympic Boulevard to the south, Fairfax Avenue to the east and Schumacher Drive on the west. The neighborhood of South Carthay is located south of Olympic Boulevard. The city of Beverly Hills is located on the west. Originally named Carthay Center, Carthay Circle was developed as an upscale residential district in 1922 by J. Harvey McCarthy, who founded

448-632: The first PATSY Award ceremony was held at the Carthay Circle. Presented by the American Humane Association , the event was hosted by Ronald Reagan , and honored Francis the Talking Mule as the first recipient of the award that honored animal actors. Although the Carthay Circle Theater had hosted the first-run " roadshow ", reserved-seat engagements of a great many aesthetically- and economically important films, by

476-429: The north, Mid-Wilshire to the east, Mid-City to the south, and Pico–Robertson to the west, and Beverly Hills to the northwest. The 2000 U.S. census counted 4,866 residents in the half-square-mile neighborhood—amounting to 9,642 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city and the county. In 2008 the city estimated that the population had increased to 5,120. The median age for residents

504-477: The population, considered a low rate for the county overall, but the percentage of veterans who served during World War II or the Korean War was among the county's highest. Carthay residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 53.2% of the population in 2000, a high rate for both the city and the county. Carthay contains three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones . They are

532-480: The school is also open to magnet school applicants from throughout LAUSD. The Environmental Studies program will be building on programs such as the celebrated Garden Science program at the school. Carthay Circle, Los Angeles Carthay Circle is a neighborhood in the Mid-City West region of Central Los Angeles , California. Originally named Carthay Center , the neighborhood was later renamed after

560-466: The support of then-councilman Zev Yaroslavsky , official neighborhood signs were installed. On July 11, 1987, the neighborhood held a dedication ceremony to celebrate the planting of 100 trees and the installation of two large concrete monuments with the name "Carthay Circle" on them. The monuments were installed at the intersection of McCarthy Vista and Wilshire Boulevard and the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The Pioneer

588-556: The time, Fantasound , a pioneering stereophonic process, was installed at this theatre. For the glamorous world premiere of MGM 's Marie Antoinette (1938), with Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power , the gardens around the theater were restructured and enhanced to resemble the landscaping of the Palace of Versailles . In the 1930s and '40s, props from the sets of such premiered films as The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Good Earth (1937), Captains Courageous (1937) and Gone with

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616-410: The walls, painted by Pasadena artist Alson S. Clark . The theatre hosted the official premieres of The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Romeo and Juliet (1936), Walt Disney 's first animated feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Gone with the Wind (1939), among many other notable films. For Disney's Fantasia (1940), the most elaborate audio system in use at

644-407: Was 37, older than the city's average. Carthay was said to be "highly diverse" when compared to the city at large. The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was: 57.8% non-Hispanic white ; 15.9% Latino ; 12.8% Black ; 8.5% Asian ; 5.1% of other races. Mexico (26.4%) and Korea (8.2%) were the most common places of birth for the 25.1% of the residents who were born abroad, a figure that was considered low for

672-533: Was called Carthay Center—an anglicized version of his last name.) The Carthay Circle Theater became the focal point of Carthay Center, and Carthay Circle became the neighborhood's official name. The exterior design was in the Spanish Colonial Revival style , with whitewashed concrete trimmed in blue, with a high bell tower and neon sign visible for miles. The architects were Carleton Winslow and Dwight Gibbs. The iconic octagonal tower

700-578: Was called the Fox Carthay Circle Theater for its unique floorplan. The Carthay Circle Theater opened at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard on May 18, 1926, with a showing of The Volga Boatman (1926), and was considered developer J. Harvey McCarthy's most successful monument, a stroke of shrewd thinking that made a famous name of the newly developed Carthay Center neighborhood in Los Angeles, California . (McCarthy's development

728-715: Was demolished in 1969 by its owner, NAFI Corporation , which erected its headquarters and main computer operations center in its place; today, two low-rise office buildings and a city park occupy its former site. In July 1994, a smaller-scale pastiche of the facade of the theatre (primarily the octagonal tower) was opened as the "Once Upon a Time" gift shop on the Sunset Boulevard section in Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The store now sells clothing items for men and women. In June 2012,

756-408: Was one of the most famous movie palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age . Located on San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles , California , it opened in 1926 and was demolished in 1969. The auditorium itself was shaped in the form of a perfect circle, extended vertically into a cylinder, set inside a square that fleshed out the remainder of the building. It seated 1,150. Initially developed by Fox , it

784-402: Was placed in the front corner spandrel space left between the circle and the square. The auditorium's cylinder -shaped wall was raised up above the roof line, to create a parapet visible from the outside that resembled a circus tent. "Simple, massive and dignified, the building stands out for its intrinsic beauty," raved The Architect and Engineer . Pacific Coast Architect wrote that it was

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