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Sandi Hemmerlein of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation takes a picture of the Tower theater's lighting board, used to control the house and stage lights, in the projection booth.

Sandi Hemmerlein of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation takes a picture of the Tower theater’s lighting board, used to control the house and stage lights, in the projection booth.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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The Tower movie theater in downtown Los Angeles, which opened in 1927, is giving the public a final look at its insides before it’s remodeled into a concert venue. Full story: Historic L.A. movie house offers one last peekis remade, it offers a last peek

Downtown Los Angeles

The Tower theater, left, stands at the corner of Broadway and 8th Street in downtown Los Angeles.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Partition

Sandi Hemmerlein looks up at a rail at the back of the theater. Since it stopped showing movies in the late 1980s, it has been used as a filming location.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Exterior wall

Careful readers can still make out “Newsreel Theatre” on one of the Tower’s walls along 8th Street.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Leading a tour

Hillsman Wright of the L.A. Historic Theatre Foundation conducts a tour of the Tower. The view is from the stage looking toward the back of the theater.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Powder room

Hillsman Wright leads a tour group through the women’s powder room in the Tower theater.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Above the stage

Decorative painted and glazed plaster appears throughout the Tower theater. This face, at the proscenium arch above the stage, is one such piece.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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