Tent City Theatre

I doubt if it survived beyond 1940. The online references to Tent City indicate that it was totally dismantled toward the end of 1939 into 1940 and the area it occupied near the Coronado hotel redeveloped and re-landscaped. I have not been able to determine if the theater itself was a tent building or if it was located in one of the more substantial buildings or was one of them near the waterfront. There was a rather large pavilion among these wood frame structures, and quite possibly the theater was located within it.

The history of Tent City is more than a little interesting. It was a sort of a resort colony that grew up just south of the famed Coronado Hotel and lasted from about 1900 to 1939 when it was completely dismantled, which explains why the theater disappears from the records after 1940. There is more information about Tent City here: View link. The theater may have been in the pavilion built near the shore; it is mentioned in some of the Tent City newspapers that were printed during the resort seasons as showing “Bioscope” features.