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El Rey Theatre (Los Angeles)

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From the 1980s to the early 1990s, El Rey Theatre was a dance-music club called Wall Street, but since 1994 this theatre has been a live music venue which is now exclusively booked through
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El Rey was built in 1936 as a single-screen movie theatre and functioned as a cinema for nearly 50 years.
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The theatre's exterior is a central plot point of the link segments of the 1986 horror compilation film
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The theatre was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 520 on February 26, 1991.
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in the theater as part of an exclusive partial concert for members of the band's fan club.
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In 1995, it was featured as the main setting of the music video for the
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and serves as the location where main character Regina (played by
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The exterior of the theatre can be seen in the 1984 film
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34°3′45″N 118°20′56″W / 34.06250°N 118.34889°W / 34.06250; -118.34889
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