Westside

Formerly the Mann National

Mann National razingOnce the home of long-running hit movies, the National at Lindbrook and Gayley in Westwood Village is most of the way demolished. The Daily Bruin at UCLA poked behind the scaffolding and found all that is planned is a "one-story retail building with roof-top parking and solar panels." Photo by Danielle Perrot.

Previously:
National Theatre gone again
Mann National goes dark


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