The Roxy Theater, where the post office is today, opened on Dec. 16, 1943 as a proud member of the Fox-West Coast theater chain. Many of the Pacific Beach kids who remember Saturday matinees at the Roxy are grandparents today. Scott Shore purchased the building in 1977 and booked live shows and art movies. I took this photo in September of 1980, when “Caligula” was the featured film. It featured Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren. The post office announced, on March 2, 1981, that it had spent $1.1 million to purchase the property. The theater was demolished three months later. — John Fry is an “almost” native San Diegan who moved to Mission Beach in 1967 after graduating from San Diego State, then to Pacific Beach in 1970. He has lived in the same house on Haines Street since 1972. In 1979, he and the late Howard Rozelle founded the Pacific Beach Historical Society. Contact John at (858) 272-6655 or [email protected].