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The Orpheum Theater opens as a fourth and final home of the famed Orpheum vaudeville circuit in LA. The detailed Beaux Arts façade features an electric rooftop sign illuminated by incandescent bulbs.

The Broadway-Spring Arcade Building opens, replacing Mercantile Pl. The 3 level glass-roofed shopping arcade connects two 12 story office towers, one facing Broadway, one facing Spring Street.

Loew’s State Theatre, designed by Charles Weeks and William Day, opens offering both film and vaudeville. Judy Garland performs as part of the Gumm Sisters in 1929.

Grand Central Market opens in what was originally the Ville de Paris Department Store. The building, originally built with a Hill St annex, is designed by John Parkinson.

Quinn’s Rialto Theatre opens as one of the first theatres to have stadium style seating and features the longest neon marquee in the Broadway National Register Historic Theatre District.

The Rosslyn Hotel is built for the staggering sum of one million dollars (hence the signage, Million Dollar Hotel). The annex is constructed across the street nine years later.

The National Theatre opens on Main St. with 600 seats and is the largest Main St. theatre. It is renamed The Regent, and becomes one of two survivors of Main St.’s early entertainment heritage.

The Palace opens as the third home of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in Los Angeles. It is one of the oldest theatres in Los Angeles and the oldest remaining original Orpheum theatre in the U.S.