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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

King Kong was captive on this stage in 1933; ten Academy Awards ceremonies followed him. The Shrine Auditorium at 665 West Jefferson Boulevard opened on 23 January 1926, a Moorish Revival colossus by John C. Austin with interiors by theatre master G. Albert Lansburgh, replacing the 1906 Al Malaikah Temple that fire had gutted in thirty minutes in 1920. The scale was the point: 6,700 seats originally - still around 6,300 after the 2002 renovation - under a dome-topped shell resembling a vast mos...