Village Theater at 820 Orange Avenue is Coronado Island's Art Deco cinema, built in 1947 as a 600-seat single-screen movie house and reopened in 2011 after a $2.6 million restoration led by Vintage Cinemas and the City of Coronado. The renovation preserved the 9,000-square-foot building's terrazzo floors, etched glass doors, and neon three-dimensional murals — including a depiction of Hotel Del Coronado — while adding two 34-seat screening rooms behind the original auditorium, creating a three-screen format on the same Orange Avenue block as Emerald C Gallery. Sony Digital Cinema projection and Dolby Digital surround sound bring the 1947 shell into current exhibition standards, and both auxiliary screens run RealD 3-D systems for first-run studio releases. Operated by Vintage Cinemas — which also runs the 1923 Vista Theater in Hollywood and the 1934 Los Feliz Theater in Los Angeles — the Coronado location offers reserved seating, private theater rentals, and special-event screenings for audiences staying at El Cordova Hotel and other Orange Avenue lodgings. The main auditorium seats viewers in red-velvet high-back chairs arranged in a semicircle beneath a grand stage curtain, a screening geometry designed so no seat in the house exceeds 60 feet from the screen. Theater patrons from mainland San Diego cross the Coronado Bridge or ride the Coronado Ferry for performances, combining the show with dinner along the Orange Avenue corridor before or after curtain. Pre-show walks along Coronado Beach and post-performance dinners on Orange Avenue extend the theatergoing experience into a full evening on Coronado Island. The 92118 village's compact geography places every performance venue within walking distance of the island's restaurants, hotels, and the Coronado Ferry Landing, making car-free theatergoing the default for island audiences.