"A Bold, Bad Breeze"

We get a view north on Broadway in the short "A Bold, Bad Breeze" (L-KO Motion Picture Company, 1916). We're looking north toward 9th St. with the eight story Majestic Theatre building, at 845 S. Broadway, on the left and Hamburger's Department Store beyond.  The film stars Billie Ritchie, Billy Bevan and Lucille Hutton.

Thanks to John Bengtson for finding the image. A cropped version of it had appeared in the July 1, 1916 issue of Universal's magazine "The Moving Picture Weekly." He notes: "Billie was filmed atop the extant Southern California Gas Company building at 950 S. Broadway, the same rooftop where Harold Lloyd staged the middle sequence of his climb in 'Feet First' (1930)."

John has this film, and several others with stars hanging from the outside of tall buildings, analyzed in his Silent Locations post "Early Thrill Comedies -- Who Was First?"

See the page about the Majestic Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about this legit house. It opened in 1908 and was demolished in 1933.

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