Empress Theatre

338 Virginia Street,
Vallejo, CA 94590

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Empress Theatre 1980's

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Built in 1911, the Empress Theatre was a large 1,000 seat, two-tiered theater with gold-leafed clouds on the ceiling, red velvet seats and a pipe organ. It has been remodeled several times over the years and has been known as the Republic, Vallejo, Senator and Crest names before being renamed the Empress Theatre in 1978 when it was purchased by William Elliott. The theater closed sometime around 1989 for seismic retrofitting, etc. and never reopened.

The Empress Theatre was later purchased by Robert Litwin and Mel Gomez, then restored and reopened.

Contributed by Robin Plutchok

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lostmemory
lostmemory on October 15, 2007 at 7:31 am

Here is a more recent photo of the Empress Theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on February 21, 2008 at 11:49 am

According to the Empress Theater website, this theater was known as the Fox Senator from 1929-1951.

lajoan
lajoan on March 31, 2008 at 3:00 pm

The Empress is once again open for the business. It has been beautifully renovated from top to bottom. We went there last weekend and had a great time. http://www.empresstheatre.org/

lostmemory
lostmemory on January 16, 2009 at 6:43 pm

Here is a nice 2009 photo of the Empress.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on March 22, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Another of the Empress Theatre.
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darquil
darquil on April 24, 2010 at 11:35 pm

I’ve posted information and photos from a recent visit here.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on August 23, 2010 at 6:35 am

This page at the Empress Theatre’s official web site names the architect of the theater as William A. Jones.

Mikeyisirish
Mikeyisirish on November 13, 2011 at 7:23 pm

Here’s a few recent photos of the Empress. Actually, they were taken yesterday…

http://www.thewholeearthisfilledwithhisglory.com/theaters/190a.html

http://www.thewholeearthisfilledwithhisglory.com/theaters/190b.html

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