Alameda Theatre
2317 Central Avenue,
Alameda,
CA
94501
2317 Central Avenue,
Alameda,
CA
94501
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Out in Alameda, the city “IN” the bay is the number 7 choice in the Bay Area’s Top Ten list in the SF Weekly publication. I’ve never had the pleasure to visit. Hopefully on an upcoming visit.
A great night time photo is featured in the link below.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/08/top_10_bay_area_movie_theaters.php
A few 2011 photos can be seen here and here.
The restoration of the original Alameda Theatre to a single screen and the addition of seven additional screens was designed by the Seattle firm The Henry Architects. Their cinema projects slide show includes four photos of the Alameda Cinema.
Curtain continued:
restoration and was well acquainted with
its needs. She had soon prepared a
stencil of the design to be transferred
onto new fabric.
Theatre operator Conner collaborated
with local upholsterer Jimmy Luque to
find the perfect curtain fabric,
eventually selecting Turkish velvet.
After Ms. Bruhl creates a newly painted
curtain panel and it is attached to the
existing curtain, the curtain will be back
to itself again.
To learn more about the historic
Alameda Theatre, visit
http://www.ci.alameda.ca.us/theater/
Re: Curtain from the Alameda Business Update 10/25/2010:
The Theatre’s original, elaborately handpainted
screen curtains were central to its
design when it opened in the 1930’s.
Eventually, the right-hand stage curtain fell
into disrepair, sustaining irreparable water
damage. When the Restoration Project began
in 2000, replacement fabric was used to
complete the curtain.
This year, the City and Alameda
Entertainment Associates’ Kyle Conner began
a search for the right fabric – and the right
artist – to recreate the lost curtain piece.
Among several candidates for the job, Bay
Area artist Beate Bruhl was chosen to copy the
fabric’s intricate design and paint it onto new
fabric. Ms. Bruhl had worked with the crew to
gold-leaf the Theatre during its 2008
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Some 2008 photos of the Alameda Theatre courtesy Julia
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Thanks for your photos Will— they are fabulous! Wish we could get them substituted for the photo at the top of this page.
Wil thanks for the great photos, I really like the B&W for their clarity.
I’ve posted information and photos from several recent visits:
1/21/2010
¾/2010
3/18/2010
3/24/2010
4/15/2010
2009 photo of the Alameda Theatre.
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Per the auditorium maximum occupancy signs, seating counts for the various auditoriums are as follows:
1 – 433 (the historic theater)
Downstairs screens:
2 – 137
3 – 133
4 – 139
Upstairs screens:
5 – 189
6 – 178 (3-D enabled)
7 – 169
8 – 82
Total seats: 1460
The mezzanine is currently closed to the public; it’s possible that the balcony seating has its own occupancy, in addition to the 433 seats I list for screen 1.
Someone should have said to that manager that Mickey Mouse never went out, and neither did presentation, opening and closing the curtains should be part of the presentation if the curtains are in working order. Some of the newer multiplexes are going back to curtains.
quote: When the Alhambra in San Francisco was de-twinned, and restored to its original condition, the curtain was not closed as well. I asked why to the Management of both. It was interesting of the responses I received. The Alhambra Manager replied, “closing the curtain went out with Mickey Mouse”
What an odd explanation. Because when the Alhambra in SF was twinned it actually HAD waterfall red velvet curtains on both sides of the twinned theatre…and they were still working, at least in 1976.
There will be a talk by Therese Poletti, on Timothy Pflueger, the architect of this theater as well as 11 others around California, sponsored by the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society on January 24 at 6 p.m. Ms. Poletti wrote a book on this architect called “Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger”. The lecture will be hosted by the Alameda Theatre in the main, historic auditorium. Please see http://www.alameda-preservation.org/ for more information, and also http://blog.timothypflueger.com/ .
1980 photo of teh Alameda Theate.
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Here is an item from the Oakland Tribune, 2/12/73:
The Alameda Theater has been purchased by Robert Lippert’s Affiliated Theater Service, which plans to refurbish the theater but not change the building’s Alhambra-style design. The theater at Central Avenue and Park Street was built in 1932 by the same architect and contractor who built Oakland’s Paramount Theater. Until recently it was owned by the Nasser family.
Lippert, a native of Alameda, said he plans to reduce the main floor seating capacity from 1,350 to 750, installing new seats and widening isles. New seats will also be installed in the balcony. Lippert also owns the East Bay’s Showcase Theaters in the Rockridge shopping center, in Alameda and Fremont.
That one works. Nice color photo.
See if this link works for you. It’s a smaller version of the other photo.
It still works for me. See if anyone else has problems with the link.
I can’t access that one.
Here is another shot of the Alameda at night.
Also freakin' sweet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwchicago/2771716131/
Way to go BW.
As far as I can see this hasn’t been posted yet, and it is freakin' sweet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grope4mac/2897327157/
This is a nice November 2008 photo.
Here is an August 2008 night view of the Alameda.