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On the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy took over Balboa Park, the Old Globe included, for use as a military base. The theatre company was forced to leave within 24 hours. The Navy returned the property in 1947.

The Old Globe cost $20,000 when it was erected for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935. Tel: (619) 231-1941 (2008);

A $350,000 addition was made to the Old Globe beginning in 10/1965; this included a new production and administrative section, public bathrooms, dressing rooms, rehearsal hall, costume design and storage area, and a set storage area. In 10/1968, remodeling began on the Falstaff Tavern, a part of the original design, to create the Cassius Carter Centre Stage, a 225-seat arena theatre. (Theatre-in-the-round was in vogue during the 1960s.)

Demolished; an arsonist burned the first Old Globe down, 03/08/1978.

PCAD id: 11600