Paramount Theater is an Art Decomovie theater located in downtown Oakland, California, designed by architect Timothy L. Pflueger, who also designed San Francisco's Castro Theatre. Asheville City Hall. ... A typical megaplex (AMC Rolling Hills 20 in Rolling Hills Estates, California). ... Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland in the upper left portion of the image. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ... This article is about the city in California. ... Castro Theatre in San Francisco, California. ...
The theater has since reopened after undergoing an extensive restoration and currently houses the Oakland Ballet, Oakland East Bay Symphony, as well as showing movies. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... The USS Arizona Memorial. ... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Restoration can be one of several things, depending on context: In criminal justice, restoration is another term for restorative justice. ...
The ParamountTheatre is the home of both the Oakland Ballet and the Oakland East Bay Symphony and, as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's premiere performing arts facilities, hosts a year-round schedule of popular music concerts, variety shows, and - of course - movies.
Elements of both the brief and detailed histories of the ParamountTheatre which appear on this web site have been paraphrased or excerpted from the book "The Oakland Paramount" by Susannah Harris Stone and from official documents of the Library of Congress and the Historic American Buildings Survey.
The theatre seated 3,036 and was designed by the Chicago firm of C.W. and George L. Rapp for the Paramount Publix theatre chain.
The Portland Theatre was designed by C.W. and George Rapp and was built by the Association of Publix and Loew under the direction of West Coast Theatres.
The ParamountTheatre building still exists and was acquired by the City of Portland in the early 1980s.
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