Tower Theater
605 W. Broadway,
San Diego,
CA
92101
605 W. Broadway,
San Diego,
CA
92101
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Anyone remember the December,1974 filming out in front of the Tower Theatre for the NBC T.V. series MOVIN'ON? The episode titled “FRAUD” can be seen on YOUTUBE……Please post any info here or at ..Thanks!
Bunch of us went in there once to see this X movie called “Angel Above Devil Below” a spoof on the exorcist, where this womans vagina gets possessed and starts yelling things. The whole audience was laughing it was great. What was strange was that during the exorcism scene (furniture flying around the room) the film jammed in the projector, we all watched the film melting away on screen. Everyone hooted and yelled, it was great fun. It was a nice theater inside, except it smelt like stale mothballs.
Click on the photo tab, I just uploaded a better photo of the theater
The Tower theatre was located across the street from the bowling alley.
Interesting that the giant ball signage spells out BOWLING in the circa 1940 photo, and TOWER in the late `40’s photo I just posted. It is identified on the right in the 1940 photo, but I believe it is on the left. Did the bowling alley convert into the Tower Theater?
If anyone has any stories about going to/ working at this threatre in its adult days, I would love to hear them. I am chronicling the histories of adult theatres in the US. Please contact me at Thanks!
November 1st, 1941 grand opening ad has been posted here.
Here is another 1980s photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nhkux2
This is a 1981 photo. I remember when “Thunderbuns” was playing at the adult theaters in Philly around that time, my frat brothers and I got a kick out of the name.
http://tinyurl.com/dmuh6p
The architect was S. Charles Lee, who also did (the much more spectacular) Tower Bowl complex directly across the street.
P.S. to my above comment. The company that ran the theater in the 60s also ran the Spreckles and the Broadway.
The Tower was across the street from the Armed Forces YMCA and served mostly military men on shore leave. In the 60s they ran mostly soft core.
The Tower is visible on the right in this photo, circa 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/2g75hg