Policeman Vince Edwards pays a visit to the Paris Theatre, 8163 Santa Monica Blvd. in "The Police Connection" (Cinemation Industries, 1973). The film, also known as "The Mad Bomber," was directed by Bert I. Gordon. Chuck Connors plays the bomber, a man trying to get even for his daughter's death.
The manager's up on the marquee and it's obvious that he's had visits from the police before. But he tells Edwards that at the moment he's running a kiddie show so there's nothing to complain about.
Edwards writes him a citation anyway -- for having a display easel protruding more than three feet onto the sidewalk.
Edwards heads on to more serious matters with Chuck Connors on the loose. On the right that's P.J.'s nightclub.
The Paris opened in 1924 as the Carmel Theatre and was a Fox West Coast operation for decades. It later had a fling as an independent classics venue and had a season of live theatre before it went to porno and was renamed the Paris. See the Los Angeles Theatres page on the Carmel Theatre for more information.
Late in the film, after a series of seemingly random bombings, the police ID Chuck Connors and track him driving around the city in a red van filled with dynamite. Here he's headed east on 7th St. with the Warner Downtown (by this time renamed the Warrens) on the right.
See the pages about the Warner Downtown on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of the building as well as several hundred photos. The theatre, now used for selling jewelry, opened as the Pantages in 1920.
On IMDb: "The Police Connection"
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