TCL Chinese Theatre

The TCL Chinese Theatre rises above Hollywood Boulevard as a sprawling, pagoda-shaped fantasy, its ninety-foot roof held aloft by two massive coral-red columns topped with wrought iron masks. Imported stone Heaven Dogs guard the entrance, and a thirty-foot-tall stone dragon stretches across the facade. Opened by showman Sid Grauman in May nineteen twenty-seven, the theater was designed by the firm Meyer and Holler to provide a cinematic experience that felt like a trip to another world.