A vacant Streamline Moderne movie palace faces two storey stucco storefronts on Market Street.
What Downtown Inglewood looks like
Market Street meets Manchester Boulevard under globe streetlamps and mature trees. On one corner, a curved Streamline Moderne tower holds Cox Menswear behind a run of plate glass windows, its second storey wrapping the bend. Facing it, a colonnade of round arches tops a building with a boot shaped sign for a hat and boot shop. A third corner holds a white stucco building with round arched window bays under a red tile cresting.
Two blocks north on Market Street, the stands boarded and vacant. Its marquee is boarded in blue painted plywood, and vertical boards cover the entrance behind it. The vertical blade sign above still outlines the word FOX, its neon letters stripped years ago. The theatre's Streamline Moderne front curves to match the corner tower down the block.
Farther along Market Street, storefronts from the 1920s through the 1940s include the building the S.H. Kress store opened at 233 South Market Street in 1927 and the one J.C. Penney took at 139 South Market Street in 1940. A terrazzo sidewalk inset still spells out Kirby's Shoes outside a glass storefront nearby, and one shuttered unit keeps its purple and yellow paint and a pay phone on the wall.
A few blocks off Market Street, one storey stucco bungalow court units sit under shared roofs behind short front lawns and parked cars. Several units share one long roofline broken only by shallow gables at each entrance.
Shot in Downtown Inglewood
, at 1 Manchester Boulevard, played the fictional IADC Headquarters on The New Adventures of Wonder Woman and the coroner's office on Quincy, M.E. Both series used the same civic building for two different fictional agencies.
The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, 1977 to 1979
Inglewood City Hall
Played the fictional IADC Headquarters, 1977 to 1979
Inglewood City Hall's exterior served as the fictional IADC Headquarters across the CBS series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman. It stands at 1 Manchester Boulevard, a short walk from the Market Street storefronts to its north. Street View
Quincy, M.E., 1976 to 1983
Played a coroner's office, Los Angeles County, 1976 to 1983
The same building's exterior stood in as the coroner's office on the NBC series Quincy, M.E. It is a poured concrete tower with deep set tinted windows, set back from Manchester Boulevard behind its own landscaped grounds. Street View
What Downtown Inglewood can double for
Monrovia in Monrovia, California
Old Town Monrovia's Myrtle Avenue is a similarly narrow two storey storefront street that location scouts already use as a stand in Main Street for towns nowhere near Los Angeles. Its scale and storefront rhythm match Market Street's own block closely. Myrtle Avenue's awnings and paintwork read newer and better kept than Market Street's boarded and for rent storefronts, so a period piece needs added signage and some weathering. Try searching Myrtle Avenue storefronts now.
Huntington Park in Huntington Park, California
Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park held its own run of two storey storefronts from the 1920s to the 1950s, including a J.C. Penney like the one that opened on Market Street. The scale and the storefront rhythm match Market Street's own block closely. Pacific Boulevard sees more pedestrian traffic and newer signage than Market Street's quieter blocks, so a period shot needs a tighter frame and an early call time. Try searching Pacific Boulevard storefronts now.
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