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Paramount Theatre 2025 Broadway, Oakland, CA

A truly magnificent example of Art Deco style beauty and construction, Oakland’s 3,476 seat Paramount Theatre is a marvellous counterpart to Radio City Music Hall, NYC in gilded glory.

The Paramount Theatre was opened December 16, 1931 with Kay Francis in “The False Madonna”, a “Fox Movietone” newsreel, a Silly Symphony cartoon “The Spider and the Fly” and on the stage a 45-minute Fanchon & Marco revue “Slavique Idea”. Attending the opening were film-stars George Bancroft, Elissa Landi, John Boles, Francis Dee and John Breedon. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer 4 manual 20 ranks theatre organ. After operating for six months with a movie & stage show policy, it was closed for a year, reopening in May 1933, managed by Frank Burhans who had come from the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco. It was now purely a movie house. It was briefly taken over by the Nasser Bros. Theaters circuit, followed by Fox West Coast Theatres - Notes by Ken Roe

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