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Lost San Diego
In June of 1887 Warren Kimball built the National City Bank Block at McKinley and Twenty-first Streets. The building had a varied career as a bank, the Ammex Motion Picture Company, a casket factory and finally as a rooming house. Gone today is the spectacular brick building whose legacy included housing an early pioneer of the film industry in America. It was demolished sometime in the 1950's and is seen now as a lot used for storage.
The pencil notes are by one of the studio actors, Henry Stanley, pointing himself out in this cast photo taken October 7, 1913. Ammex filmed mostly Westerns.
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By Welton Jones- Survivors of San Diego's Theatrical Past
By Welton Jones- Professional Theater Comes to San Diego
By Dean Glass- Googie: An Architectural Link to San Diego's Midcentury Culture
By Kristin Reichardt Kirwan- North Park's Neon
By George Franck- A General Plan of Destruction
By Bruce Coons- Preservation Community
- Unearthing Long-Buried Whaley House Cistern
By Dean Glass- Reflections
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