Kinema Theatre
1247 5th Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
1247 5th Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
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Previous Names: Queen Theatre, Illusion Theatre
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The Queen Theatre was opened on December 28, 1908. It was an early silent cinema in San Diego just doors away from the Grand Theatre. The theatre did well with the Keystone Studio comedies from 1913 to 1915 having been renamed Illusion Theatre on June 7, 1914. But the theatre struggled thereafter closing twice - briefly in 1917 before getting new owner A.F. Ahrens on December 13, 1919 who was buoyed by the opening of the San Diego & Arizona Railroad and took on the Illusion Theatre renaming it the Kinema Theatre. It was closed in 1924.
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This opened as the Queen on December 28th, 1908 and renamed Illusion on June 7th, 1914 and as Kinema on December 13th, 1919 and stopped its listings in 1924. Grand opening ads posted.