El Rey Theatre
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The El Rey Theatre is currently a live music venue in the Miracle Mile area of the Mid-Wilshire region in Los Angeles, CA. This art-deco building was designed by Clifford A. Balch (who designed over 20 classic art-deco movie theaters around Southern California). Much of the theater still retains its art-deco roots.
The El Rey was originally built in 1936 as a single-screen movie theater and functioned as a movie theater for nearly 50 years. From the 1980s to the early 1990s the El Rey Theatre was a dance-music club called Wall Street, but since 1994 this theater has been a live music venue.
The El Rey is exclusively booked through Goldenvoice Concerts.
The theater was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 520 on February 26, 1991.
The El Rey also plays host to Sigma Alpha Epsilon's (Cal Delta, UCLA) annual Elimidance philanthropy. Last year Cal Delta SAE's generated over $3,000 in charitable donations to Students for International Change, a group dedicated to AIDS prevention and education in Africa.
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5515 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036 Between Burnside and Dunsmuir
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