Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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On Whittier and Atlantic in East LA lies the Golden Gate Theater, made in 1927. Sadly, it's been almost 25 years since the Golden Gate showed its last film.
In that time the theater has been abandoned and the subject of a lot of political wrangling. But thanks to a decision by the LA County Board of Supervisors this past May, the fight looks like it might come to an end. The theater's owner, a developer called Charles Company, just got permission to convert the building into a CVS pharmacy while preserving some of the theater's most iconic elements. Off-Ramp's Kevin Ferguson talked with County Supervisor Gloria Molina about the Golden Gate's past, present and future.