Fairfax Theatre
The Fairfax Theatre in Los Angeles was designed by architect Woodbury C. Pennell in the Art Deco style as a mixed-use complex with a movie theater, retail shops and second-floor offices. Almost as soon as it opened on March 26, 1930, the theater became the center of the developing Jewish community’s social life as a venue for both entertainment and fundraising for local synagogues and causes. The retail shops served as a neighborhood commercial center with ethnic specialty stores and restaurants including the first Jewish delicatessen, kosher meat market and Jewish bakery on Fairfax Avenue. The theater has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places and is a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument owing to a successful designation campaign by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt