Featured Mike Gore

Mike Gore was a theater owner and motion picture pioneer who played a key role in the rapid spread of motion picture theaters in the 1920s.

Gore came to the United States from Russia as a child, settling first in Chicago where he later was in the cigar-manufacturing business. He came to Los Angeles in 1906, when the movie industry was in its early days.

Gore was an early player in Los Angeles' burgeoning motion picture theater business, growing his chain to 485 show houses.

As the president and cofounder of West Coast Theaters, Gore appropriated more than $5,000,000 in 1924 for the immediate... Read more