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Going to the Movies in La Jolla: When The Lot opens this fall, it will join the storied list of cinemas in the Village

On the evening of March 25, 1925, a splendid fete was underway at the corner of Girard Avenue and Wall Street. 1920s flivvers (Model Ts) beeped and crowded the streets. Flappers in gala garb waved and smooched. Everyone gazed up in wonder at a movie marquee that gazed back offering fantastic gilded minarets and the promise of the world premiere of “The Boomerang,” three vaudeville acts direct from Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, Paris Fashion Revue in natural colors, a comedy riot called “Crushed” and “the first showing of Cetalla’s historic run to the North Pole in his race with death” — all for 25 cents.

10 QUESTIONS: Doug Manchester always wants to be startin’ something

oug Manchester is chairman of Manchester Financial Group. A leader in the San Diego Convention Center expansion project, he contributed the property for its development. His completion of the second largest Marriott and Hyatt hotels in the world paved the way for the vast downtown redevelopment that continues to this day. In addition to the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina, and the Manchester Grand Hyatt, his projects include the Fairmont Grand Del Mar, Torrey Executive Centre, Manchester Financial Building, and soon a Fairmont hotel in Austin, Texas.
“Papa” Doug, as he likes to be called, is a graduate of San Diego State University and a former trustee of the University of San Diego and Wake Forest University. He is the founder of the San Diego chapter of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society and serves a