Broadway Theatre
815 Broadway,
San Diego,
CA
92101
815 Broadway,
San Diego,
CA
92101
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A single auditorium theatre on Broadway that was demolished in the 1980s. It had very nice terrazzo entrance. Once part of a small chain operated along with the Spreckels and Tower Theatres.
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This is a vintage photo of a Broadway Theater in San Diego.
A Robert-Morton theater organ size 2/4 style 75 was installed in the Broadway Theater in 1920.
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d6vgkd
The Broadway opened in 1916.
The Broadway Theater on 8th and Broadway downtown began showing Asian flicks around the same time as the State Theater on El Cajon Boulevard, in October 1980. From 1976 thru 1980, the Broadway had been showing Spanish films (and American movies dubbed or subtitled in Spanish), but the Broadway theater owner Jacqueline Littlefied – who also owned the Spreckels Theaters further down Broadway – terminated the Spanish operators' lease (alleging poor building upkeep) and gave operation of the Broadway to the same Asian owner who took over the State Theater, Thoat Tang Minh.