The Alameda Theatre is an
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
movie theatre built in 1932 in
Alameda, California. It opened with a seating capacity of 2,168. It was designed by architect
Timothy L. Pflueger
Timothy Ludwig Pflueger (September 26, 1892 – November 20, 1946) 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 Rupert Miller, Ja ...
and was the last grand
movie palace
A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is any of the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 192 ...
built in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. It closed in the 1980s as a triplex theatre and was later used as a gymnastics studio. A restoration and expansion project was completed in 2008, making the historic theater the primary anchor of an eight-screen
multiplex
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.
See also
*
Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California)
*
Fox Oakland Theatre
The Fox Oakland Theatre is a 2,800-seat concert hall, a former movie theater, located at 1807 Telegraph Avenue in Downtown Oakland. It originally opened in 1928, running films until 1970. Designed by Weeks and Day, the theatre is listed on the Nat ...
*
Grand Lake Theater
The Grand Lake Theatre is a historic movie palace located at 3200 Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in the Grand Lake neighborhood of Oakland, California.
History
The Grand Lake Theater, designed as a single auditorium theater by Architects Rei ...
References
External links
Alameda Theatre & Cineplex's official website and movie showtimes
Cinemas and movie theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area
Movie palaces
Buildings and structures completed in 1932
Art Deco architecture in California
Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
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