Garrick Theatre (Los Angeles)
Former movie theater in Los Angeles, California
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Garrick Theatre, previously Hyman Theatre, also known as Quinn's Garrick and The Garrick, was a movie theater located at 802 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.
The theater in 1913 | |
 Interactive map of Garrick Theatre | |
Former names | Hyman Theatre |
|---|---|
| Address | 802 South Broadway, Los Angeles |
| Coordinates | 34.0437°N 118.2547°W |
| Capacity | 900 |
| Type | live theater converted to movie theater |
| Screens | 1 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1910 or 1911 |
| Renovated | 1921 |
| Demolished | 1927 or earlier |
| Architect | Train and Williams George Edwin Bergstrom (1921 remodel) |
History
Hyman Theatre was designed by Train and Williams for Arthur S. Hyman and built in or after 1910.[1][2] The theater was renamed Garrick Theatre in 1911.[1] It sat 900 and was originally built for live theater.[3]
The theater was purchased by John Archibald Quinn[4] prior to 1914, at which point it was converted to a movie theater. Tickets originally sold for five cents ($1.61 in 2025) and the theater was immensely popular; as a result, evening prices were doubled for orchestra seats and tripled for loges.[3]
The theater was remodeled by George Edwin Bergstrom at a cost of $20,000 in 1921 ($361,007 in 2025).[5] It was demolished and replaced by Tower Theatre in 1927.[1][2] Herman Louis Gumbiner owned both Tower Theater and Garrick Theatre when the latter was demolished.[5]