The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating
Grand Lobby interior, Fountain of Light over entrance and marquee
Oakland Paramount Theatre exterior, 1975
2005 view of marquee listing Elvis Costello
1975 photograph by Jack E. Boucher showing the four-story Grand Lobby
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The Castro Theatre is a historic movie palace in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. Built in 1922, the theater displays architectural styles including Beaux-Arts and Spanish Baroque. It
Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California)
…Pflueger (1892–1946) of Miller and Pflueger. The Paramount opened at a cost of $3 million on December 16, 1931. Pflueger was also the designer of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The Art Deco design referred to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. The term Art…
Front entrance of the Castro Theatre (2008)
The original Castro Theatre located at 479 Castro Street
The extravagant interior ceiling with Art Deco chandelier made by Phoenix Day Lighting, as it appears in the darkened movie hall
Castro Theatre running Milk November 2008