[2] It was designed in the Spanish Baroque style by the architectural team of Henry L. Gogerty (1894–1990) and Carl Jules Weyl (1890–1948) in 1926–1927.

[8] Also in 1952, the first nationally televised telethon, in support of the United States Olympic Team and featuring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra, was held here.

A circular spiral metal stairway led to the second floor, a make-up mirrored counter desk, with a Hollywood bed/couch.

The adjacent toilet suite was equipped with a wall mounted telephone for Lewis to conduct business while using the facilities and his make-up area.

The "level" concrete ramp and stage apron supported the Chapman Crane required for video taping talent and performers.

Launched in January 1964, The Hollywood Palace was a one-hour weekly variety series with a rotating roster of headliner guest hosts.

Other hosts included Liberace, Jimmy Durante, Ginger Rogers, Victor Borge, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, Van Johnson, Betty Hutton, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Judy Garland, Alice Faye & Phil Harris, Groucho Marx and Louis Armstrong [2].

The Hollywood Palace television series was an ABC-TV West Coast production inaugurated by the network to compete with the Sunday-night CBS-TV Ed Sullivan show.

ABC approached Nick Vanoff and Bill Harbach, open for their suggesting a prestige variety hour format.

With Vanoff/Harbach's New York based production affiliation with the Perry Como TV series, the network bought the variety concept as a high-end mid-season replacement.

Zodiac Productions established by Vanoff and Harbach brought together their same staff that they had put together four months previously taping a Bing Crosby Color Special (Aug 1963) for CBS-TV at NBC-Burbank.

And made the audience stick with the tube by not switching channels during the normal network scheduled commercial break.

The adjacent parking lot became an extra bonus for the show to book in high-flying wire walking and aerialist & trapeze performers, as well as animal acts which required large set-up space.

Sammy Davis Jr. was a frequent guest performer and Dean Martin's two hosting assignments in 1964 led to his own NBC-TV variety series.

ABC converted the Hollywood Palace from a black-and-white TV studio to the network's first West-Coast color broadcast facility during the 1965 summer hiatus.

The Lawrence Welk Show moved from the ABC-Talmadge lot alternating their taping schedule with the Hollywood Palace.

The guests were: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Transcendental Meditation), Ellen Corby (The Waltons), Harold H. Bloomfield and California State Senator Arlen F. Gregorio.

In 1978, ABC sold the theatre to private businessman Dennis Lidtke, who restored it and reopened it four years later with an abridged name, The Palace.

It was the venue for the performance portion of Bruce Willis' ACE nominated HBO special "The Return of Bruno", which was directed by Jim Yukich.

[13] Seeing that clubgoers were more into electronic bands and live or semi-live acts, co-owner Steve Adelman explained that he aimed for "a whole production and visual experience that's not just focused on watching a guy on two turntables.

[17] Many top EDM artists and deejays have played at Avalon's "Avaland" nights since it opened, including Tiesto,[18] Marcus Schulz,[19] Sasha,[20] Digweed[21] and Paul Oakenfold.

[22] The owner, John Lyons used to own and operate the original Avalon located in Boston, Massachusetts at 15 Lansdowne Street in a historic building of its own, right behind Fenway Park.