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 National Register of Historic Places.

Dec 24, 2024 · While leading a recent tour of the Fox Oakland Theater, architectural historian J.M. Marriner pointed to the flashing marquee floating above Telegraph Avenue and declared it “as much of an...

Fox Theater, Oakland. When the Fox Theater opened its doors in October 1928, 20,000 patrons thronged Oakland's newest movie palace to experience music on the Mighty Wurlitzer, a live stage show and one of the latest innovations, the "talkies" that were replacing silent films.

2000-12-06 04:00:00 PDT Oakland -- Seventy-two years after the marquee of Oakland's downtown Fox Theater first beckoned patrons to an evening of mirth and vaudeville, city officials...

Built in 1928, the Fox Theater is an architectural masterpiece and former movie house that underwent a $75 million renovation to reopen its doors in February of 2009 under the direction of Another Planet Entertainment.

The Fox Oakland Theater is a historic theater in the Uptown neighborhood. Built in 1928 as the Oakland Theater for West Coast Theaters, the fanciful “Brahmanian Temple” movie palace was built with a seating capacity of 3,800 [a] and was the …

fox theatre marquee lights up to ignite uptown revival OAKLAND, CA – The City of Oakland and Friends of the Oakland Fox (FOOF) are pleased to announce that the landmark Fox Theater's newly-restored marquee and blade will be re-lit during a festive celebration on Thursday, November 29, 2001.

Fox Theater Oakland . Telegraph Ave façade, reinstallation of restored blade sign and 1935 marquee. 9/01

Fox Theater Oakland . Telegraph Avenue façade, restored 1935 marquee and blade sign, looking north. 1/31/03. Photo by Gary Knecht

Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [2]