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
Timothy L. Pflueger
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Timothy Ludwig Pflueger was an architect, interior designer and architectural lighting designer in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of the 20th century. Together with James R. Miller, Pflu
Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California)
…program resulting in some of the finest theaters built. Publix assigned the design of the Oakland Paramount to 38-year-old San Francisco architect Timothy L. 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…
Pflueger in 1936, sketched by Peter van Valkenburg
Our Lady of the Wayside Church (1912), a rural Catholic church in Portola Valley
The newly built Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building towered over its neighbors.
Ralph Stackpole's monumental stone figures top the entrance to 155 Sansome, the Stock Exchange Tower.