The Vista Theater, 4473 Sunset Boulevard, out east where Hollywood Boulevard begins, needed a new coat of bright orange paint. It was designed by Lewis A. Smith and opened on October 16, 1923, with Baby Peggy in “Tips” along with live vaudeville acts on stage. Six years later it was showing the new talkies and it just kept going. Ed Wood – voted the worst director of all time again and again, mainly for “Plan 9 from Outer Space” in 1956 – had an office in...
more »The Vista Theater, 4473 Sunset Boulevard, out east where Hollywood Boulevard begins, needed a new coat of bright orange paint. It was designed by Lewis A. Smith and opened on October 16, 1923, with Baby Peggy in “Tips” along with live vaudeville acts on stage. Six years later it was showing the new talkies and it just kept going. Ed Wood – voted the worst director of all time again and again, mainly for “Plan 9 from Outer Space” in 1956 – had an office in this building. But the Vista was getting shabby. The new coat of bright orange paint makes it 1923 again. "It pays to look good" – that's what it says at Rudy's Barber Shop next door – and further down Sunset there's the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. The world needs Upright Citizens again too. ~ Thursday, September 20, 2018
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