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Article: Historic renovation returns downtown theater to roaring '20s glory: long-forgotten building opening to audiences this year after $26m makeover.(STRUCTURES)(Balboa Theatre)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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No one is quite sure why two waterfalls flank the stage at the old Balboa Theatre downtown. Maybe it was a way to keep the audience coot during the vaudeville acts of the late 1920s.
But it's more likely that the seemingly innovative idea turned out to be more trouble than it was worth and the Balboa may be the only theater in the United States to boast a pair of waterfalls on either side of its 41-foot-wide proscenium.
After extensive renovation, the theater is scheduled to open with renewed splendor in November as a venue for music, dance, film, theater or format gatherings.
Waterfalls included, the estimated $26 million renovation of the ...