At the crossroads of Sunset and Hollywood Blvds., the Vista was originally built in 1923 by J.H. Woodhouse & Sons as a vaudeville playhouse. Architecturally, the theater’s simple Spanish Revival facade conceals a strikingly gaudy Egyptian interior that was all the rage in the 1920s. Historically, the Vista occupies the former site of D.W. Griffith’s massive Babylonian sets for Intolerance (1923), recalling the gradual shift of L.A.’s fledgling movie biz westward from the Edendale/Silver Lake area toward present-day Hollywood.
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