Photo credit: Eric Richardson/Blogdowntown.

Eric Richardson of Blogdowntown reports the removal on Saturday night of the famous JESUS SAVES neon signs from the former United Artists theater. No word as to their destination.

I have queried Nathan Marsak, our favorite L.A. neon expert, because if anyone knows, he will.  At right, the sign as it appeared in 1979.

[Update: Apparently Los Angeles University Cathedral, the church founded by the Rev. Gene Scott (d. 2005), who salvaged the signs from wherever they had been dumped, is moving from downtown to Glendale — and so are the signs. That raises the question of what becomes of the United Artists theater. The church hasn’t allowed photography inside, so I don’t have any current pictures of the interior. ]