A downtown Los Angeles icon is closing up store — for now, at the least. On Monday the homeowners of the historic The Mayan introduced it can stop to function as a nightclub and music venue in September.
A notable instance of the Nineteen Twenties Mayan Revivalism architectural motion, The Mayan, situated at 1038 South Hill Avenue, opened in 1927 as a venue for musical theater. It modified possession a number of occasions over the following many years has been a film venue specializing in Spanish language cinema and, within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties was a pornographic theater. It was bought by its present homeowners in 1990, and reopened the identical 12 months as a nightclub.
“Farwell from the Mayan,” the homeowners introduced in a press release posted on Instagram. “It’s with heavy but grateful hearts that we announce The Mayan might be closing its doorways on the finish of September, after 35 unforgettable years.”
After thanking patrons and associates, the assertion continued, “Earlier than we take our closing curtain name, we invite you to affix us on the dancefloor each Saturday evening by September thirteenth for one final celebration of every little thing The Mayan has meant to us all.”
The constructing is unlikely to be demolished, because it has been declared an official historic landmark by the town of Los Angeles. Nevertheless, the homeowners haven’t mentioned what they plan to do with the property after it ceases to function as a nightclub.
The Mayan was designed with enter from Mexican anthropologist and sculptor Francisco Cornejo, with the constructing’s exterior and inside based mostly on the artwork and artifacts of pre-Columbian American societies.
