Gilded Cage Theater

626 West Broadway,
San Diego, CA 92101

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danwhitehead1
danwhitehead1 on March 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm

At the time Andy and Charlie were thinking on buying the Guilded Cage the Tower Bowl was also for sale for a million dollars (can you believe that?). Andy could have come up wit a million easily but, at the time, thought it too much. Years later he was kicking himself in the slats for that mistake.

JayAllenSanford
JayAllenSanford on October 31, 2008 at 7:03 am

I’ve been trying to find a photo of this theater – the best I could do was to freeze a fleeting frame in the 1979 film Hardcore, with George C. Scott stumbling around downtown San Diego in search of his porn “star” daughter. You can find the pic here:

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danwhitehead1
danwhitehead1 on March 6, 2008 at 7:36 am

This house was in the same block as the beautiful old Tower Bowl (Tower Bowl on one side, Effie’s Liquor on the other). I sure wish some more history about it would turn up. When I was working for Wesley “Andy” Andrews and Charlie Smith at the Aztec, they wanted to buy this theatre and I was all excited because of the rear-screen projection; they never bought it though. Also, Andy used to work at Effie’s Liquor.