Westwood Theatre
1634 Ocean Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94112
1634 Ocean Avenue,
San Francisco,
CA
94112
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This first Balboa Theatre opened on December 23, 1922, at 1634 Ocean Avenue, and is not to be confused with the second, better known, and still operating Balboa Theatre, about five miles away, which opened in February 1926 as the New Balboa Theatre.
Confusion over its identity seems to have begun as soon as the second one opened, and after five years, this one’s name was changed to Westwood Theatre, but it soon closed, not so much a victim of the depression, as unable to compete with the the much larger and grander El Rey Theatre a few blocks away.
It was torn down, and a grocery store built on its former site in the early-1930’s.
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1928 photo of the theater here:
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Vintage photo of the Balvoa Theatre
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It was the Westwood Theatre from 1931-1932
Some people don’t read the messages in here because if they did they would have noticed that gsmurph gave the address for this theater over a year ago.
I don’t know how the above message got in here. It was posted in the Valencia Theater.