Laemmle's Grande farewell

Laemmle's Grande 4-plex movie theater in Downtown Los Angeles has been closed a couple years...preemptively self-sacrificed in the face of the mighty Regal Cinemas at LA Live. This was a sunken theater, tucked along Figueroa Street in a part of Downtown that turns ghost after business hours.

I attended a conference last week at the Marriott Hotel sitting atop the Grande theater, so I took a look at the old box. I'm not sure why, and speaking of sunken theaters, this is where I watched Titanic in 1997. Big movie, small screen. At least it stuck around for at least another ten years to show Wandering Bitch Ass, September Issue, Bright Star, and Zombieland.