MG>It breaks my heart every time I pass 4th and C streets. It was a marvelous o
MG>theater. The Egyptian at Park and University was long gone by the time I
MG>started going to Hillcrest or North Park, but the San Diego Historical Socie
MG>has some wonderful pictures on their website. The early 20s were very into
MG>Egyptian flavored architecture, I'm sure you have read somewhere sometime th
MG>Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922 and that event started the
MG>fad. If you go to East San Diego (which in the 20s was a separate city than
MG>Diego) there's an odd almost an obelisk shaped building that is a bar now bu
MG>used to be a pizza place and used to be taller, if you go just south of that
MG>building on the cross street you'll find a very old car repair shop with tha
MG>Egyptian flavor.  :)

I have passed those many times in the Old Days. Which for in San diego
was the 50's when I was i nthe Navy and the 70's and early 80's after I
retired. Then I lived just off El Cajon Blvd at 38th Street. I drove El
Cajon Blvd and University many times end to end.
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