Browse Descriptions for: The Observatory North Park

Order By:

Mac

Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

San Diego's first theatre built for the talkies now runs on guitars. The Observatory North Park at 2891 University Avenue opened on January 17, 1929 as the North Park Theatre, a 1,200-seat Fox West Coast house promoted as the first cinema in the city designed from the foundation up for sound pictures. The Spanish-Moorish house ran movies for sixty years before closing in 1989; the city bought the building, funded a 900,000-dollar seismic retrofit, and a 12-million-dollar community renovation re...