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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The theatre was the bait in a plan to rebuild an entire downtown. The San Diego Civic Theatre at 1100 Third Avenue opened on 12 January 1965 with the San Diego Symphony on stage - a 2,967-seat hall proposed in 1962 by Mayor Charles Dail as the cultural anchor of a redevelopment package that included a new City Hall, convention hall and parking garage. Architect Lloyd Ruocco, the region's leading modernist, designed the county's largest indoor theatre with William Rosser and Seldon Kennedy; the ...