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The Unique Theatre was located on Pacific Avenue (north of the Del Mar Theater). It opened on August 8, 1904 as a seven-hundred-seat vaudeville house and was later turned into a movie theater. In 1936, it was demolished.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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The ceiling of the Del Mar Theatre, a movie theater that opened on August 13, 1936.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Streetcar #17 of the Union Traction Company, traveling southbound past the Santa Cruz Theatre, on Pacific Avenue at Walnut.

Date: ca. 1920
Type: PHOTO

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The Grand Theatre, one of the first movie theaters in Santa Cruz, was on Pacific Avenue, across the street from Walnut. The posters in front of the theater advertise "The Eternal City" (1915), "Marriage a la Carte" (1915 and 1916), and a film…

Date: ca. 1915
Type: PHOTO

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The projection room at the Grand, one of the first movie theaters in Santa Cruz.

Date: ca. 1915
Type: PHOTO

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The Del Mar Theatre from the rear; like the rest of Pacific Avenue, it is closed off.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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Photo taken possibly more than a year after the earthquake, when the Del Mar reopened; it does not show earthquake damage or closed streets.

Date: Unknown
Type: PHOTO

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A shovel on a bulldozer cleans up the remains of demolished buildings in downtown Santa Cruz near the Del Mar Theatre. The building housing Pretty Mama is still standing, boarded up.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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This shot is nearly the same as the previous one, with a better view of the building to the left. A shovel on a bulldozer cleans up the remains of demolished buildings in downtown Santa Cruz near the Del Mar Theatre. The building housing Pretty Mama…

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A Christmas tree adorns a vacant lot across Pacific Avenue from the Del Mar Theatre. December 1989.

Date: December, 1989
Type: PHOTO

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