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

Jack White played a pop-up show here while the ceiling was still crumbling - five years later the room reopened for real. The Regent Theater at 448 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles opened in February 1914 as the National Theatre, one of about twenty small theaters then lining Main Street, and stands today as the street's last remaining historic movie house. The building lived the full downtown arc: renamed the Regent in 1917, demoted to second-run films when the Broadway palaces stole ...