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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

San Diego's Spanish Revival palace waited 22 dark years for its second act. The Balboa Theatre at 868 Fourth Avenue, beside the old Horton Plaza in the Gaslamp Quarter, opened on 28 March 1924 - architect William Wheeler's 800,000-dollar vaudeville and movie house crowned with its signature tiled dome, cooled by twin waterfall grottoes flanking the proscenium, and seating over 1,500 as downtown's first great picture palace. The building lived several lives - the Fox-run El Teatro Balboa era of ...