Strand Theatre

Sixth Avenue and B Street,
San Diego, CA 92101

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rivest266
rivest266 on April 30, 2024 at 3:27 pm

Grand opening ad posted.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on December 28, 2019 at 3:17 pm

San Diego History Center link.
THREE INCARNATIONS OF THE GARRICK THEATRE

https://sandiegohistory.org/collection/photographs/garrick/?fbclid=IwAR0tMQ2kIjQcaKJN0w93JOkMUi70v2QPSiXs4cJSDyHsvQnCY5FB6izO6HE

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on December 16, 2015 at 4:54 pm

The Garrick was one of a large number of theaters taken over by the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville circuit and renamed Empress in the early 1910s. Most Sullivan & Considine houses were equipped to show movies, and the San Diego operation was no exception. The 1911 San Diego directory has a listing for a Mr. F. Earl Nelson, giving his profession as moving picture operator (projectionist) at the Empress Theatre.

Among the acts that appeared on vaudeville bills at the Empress were Fred Karno’s London Comedians, with headliners Charles Chaplin and Stan Laurel. The troupe appeared at the San Diego Empress at least three times from 1911 to 1913, the last only a few weeks before Chaplin left the company to join Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company.