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701 5th Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
701 5th Avenue,
San Diego,
CA
92101
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Closed permanently January 26, 2023
And apparently it will get a new lease on life… with only 8 screens but a rooftop bar.
January 31, 2016: Closed for good tonight. Another piece of history.
This opened in November 1997
San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) – November 6, 1997
Life in the age of the ‘plex Gaslamp 15 looks like a movie house … now if it would just act and sound like one … It is called the Pacific Gaslamp 15 Theater and it has no gas lamps — or Ingrid Bergman in “Gaslight.” But it might be a gas, as Sinatra would say: 73,000 square feet including 15 theaters, with “wall-to-wall” screens up to 30 by 46 feet large, plus raked “stadium” seating, plush red seats, lights shaped like Academy Awards, digital sound and a lobby fit for a train depot — or a “popcorn
This is no longer the Pacific Gaslamp 15. It’s being called the Gaslamp Stadium by its new operator, Reading Cinemas.
Here are some photos from July 2007:
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This project was designed by BENSON & BOHL ARCHITECTS of San Diego, CA. For additional information on this and other B&B theaters, see www.bensonbohl.com