Further down Sunset Boulevard is the Planet Hollywood SuperStore, housed in yet another grand Art Deco movie palace facade, this time based on the former La Reina Theater in Sherman Oaks, California. While the interior of this shop and its product selection are distinctly modern, great effort has been taken on the outside to blend Planet Hollywood into the 1940s story of the area.
Coming Attractions feature such sure-to-be-future-classics as Out of This World, Flyboys over Hollywood, and It Came from Another Planet. The poster for the latter even depicts the alien robot's ship as the Planet Hollywood restaurant from Downtown Disney.
LaReina Theatre info. Lots of pictures in the comments section. http://cinematreasures.org/theater/502/
ReplyDeleteThank you to Melinda (above comment) and Craig (@crcormier on Twitter) for helping identify the architectural inspiration for this shop.
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