S. Charles Lee's 1935 Hollywood Boulevard Movie Palace
6675 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Drive-by viewing from Hollywood Boulevard is free. Interior is currently operated by a private church congregation.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Public sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1935 · S. Charles Lee Streamline Moderne theater · Hollywood Boulevard movie palace · Hollywood Walk of Fame neighborhood landmark
The Vogue Theatre opened on July 9, 1935 at 6675 Hollywood Boulevard. According to Wikipedia and Cinema Treasures, the theater was designed by S. Charles Lee, the prolific California theater architect responsible for many of the West Coast's most distinctive movie palaces, with a Streamline Moderne exterior and an American Colonial interior. The Vogue seated 897 patrons and was operated for much of its first-run life by Fox West Coast Theatres and, later, Mann Theatres.
The Vogue closed as a movie theater in 1995. According to the Los Angeles Theatres blog and Cinema Treasures, the interior fittings were stripped in December 2001. In 2010 the building reopened as a music club, restaurant, and performance space, which itself closed in 2015. Since 2023 the building has served as the home of Victory Outreach Ministries International and the Third Wave Hollywood Church. The exterior marquee remains a Hollywood Boulevard landmark, and the building is documented on the Historical Marker Database.
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The Vogue Theatre is a regular stop on Hollywood ghost-tour itineraries. The most-frequently retold story, originating with the International Society for Paranormal Research's investigations and disseminated through Ghost City Tours and LA Tourist, involves a long-serving projectionist named Fritz, reported to have worked at the Vogue for roughly forty years and to have died in the projection booth in the 1980s. Staff and event attendees have reported the smell of pipe smoke and the sound of footsteps in the upstairs booth area.
Ghost-tour narratives also reference a story that the Vogue site was once occupied by a Prospect Elementary School that burned in 1901, killing students and a teacher. This part of the legend is repeated in tourist-facing sources but is not consistently corroborated in mainstream architectural histories of the theater; visitors should treat it as Hollywood folklore rather than verified history.
Because the interior is currently used by a church congregation, paranormal investigations are no longer routinely accessible. Public engagement is best done at the exterior, as part of a Hollywood Boulevard walking tour.
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The Vogue Theatre's 1935 Streamline Moderne facade remains a Hollywood Boulevard landmark. Walk past the marquee as part of a Hollywood Walk of Fame route. Interior access is limited to the current congregation tenant; view from the public sidewalk only.
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