La Paloma Theater
The La Paloma Theatre
471 South Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
The La Paloma Theatre is a single screen movie house, which dates back to the late 1920s.
On February 11, 1928 La Paloma Theatre opened with the film "The Cohen's And Kelly's in Paris." The gala event was attended by Hollywood starlet and soon to be Academy Award winner Mary Pickford.
The La Paloma Theatre is known for off-beat movies, including foreign films and documentaries. The theatre also shows films on surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, three locally popular sports.
Over the years many musical performers have performed at the La Paloma, including Loreena McKennitt, Nickel Creek, Ralph Stanley, Jerry Garcia and Eddie Vedder.
La Paloma (The Dove) was one of the first theatres to show "Talkies." Talking pictures premiered in 1927 with the Warner Bros. film "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson. Making the transition from silent pictures to "talkies" didn't happen over night, so La Paloma was also equipped with a beautiful pipe organ, a standard piece of theatre equipment during the Silent era. Films in the early days of motion pictures were usually preceded by a vaudeville stage act, and La Paloma was well suited for that.
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