Fox Theatre
2215 Broadway,
Redwood City,
CA
94063
2215 Broadway,
Redwood City,
CA
94063
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Its open and doing well
The Fox is re-opened and operating as a live theatre venue, with some films. They recently hosted a film festival.
Therefore, we should have this listed as OPEN
and website changed to http://www.foxrwc.com/
Thanks!
Thanks Larry.
This theatre was recently purchased by a new investor who promises to re-open the theatre by mid-summer of 2010. Will be used for live/civic attractions. No showing of films was mentioned in article..(Peninsula Examiner,5/10)
Then when putting it in a photobucket account you need to give credit to the person responsible for the photo. Need to take copy rights into consideration also.
2009 photo of the Fox Theatre.
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Chuck1231, One of the problems with linking pictures from the source is things change and the original link becomes a dead link. ken mc has linked afew shots in the past to current eBay pictures that are only good for a month many times. After that time they are dead links.
Why not link directly to the source of the photo instead of putting it in your photobucket. Give credit where credit is due.
Here is a July 1951 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yfkflcq
Some photos of the Fox Theatre courtesy kevystew.
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Historical photos from the Redwood City Library:
Lobby in 1979:
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Opening day celebration as the Fox in 1950:
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The Fox is only a half block from the Century 20 Theatres that is not listed on CT. Anyone have info on the Centry 20 Theatres that they can add it?
An undated photo on the original Sequoia Theater located at 2114 Broadway can be found in “Images of America Redwood City on page 29. It shows the front of the theater with probably 100 people. I will scan the photo along with a photo of the "Sequoia” at the second location on Broadway. Also there is a photo of the start of the demo of the Redwood Theater showing workers on the roof. Also note my new thread about the FIRST theater(1915)in Redwood City –“The Bell” or Bell Theater on Main St.-there is a photo in same book.
I agree Larry. The 1945 photo is a nice photo. This is a 2009 photo.
Lost Memory
What a great picture!
A 1945 photo of the Sequoia is here.
Here is another photo of the Fox.
Thanks, Larry. I’ll put the information about the opening on the Paris page.
In regards to the above question regarding the PARIS THEATRE, it was located in downtown Palo Alto, about 7 miles south of Redwood City. It was in operation for years. It was classified as an art house. Very popular with the Stanford University crowd. They also served espresso style coffees which were available in the lobby. You could enjoy coffee there without obligation of admission ticket if you chose. Not very big.
I’ve come across another Redwood City puzzler. Under the headline “Opens Redwood City Paris” in the August 21, 1961, issue of Boxoffice Magazine is a brief item saying that Jean Renoir’s “Picnic On the Grass” had been the opening attraction at the new “…Paris Theatre and espresso house….” No address is given, but the owners were named as Mr. and Mrs. Harold Snyder of Redwood City.
Anybody know anything about this theater? Boxoffice sometimes got details wrong, so the new theater might have actually been in a nearby town.
Looking at recent photos of the Fox Redwood marquee reminds me when that total marquee was covered in animated neon, colors consisted of pink, green, and white. The removal of all that neon leaves just a tired, old worn out sign that probably should just be removed and buried, with the rest of that wonderful history that theatre once had. Even the interior, though recently redone still does not even come close to the real beauty that theatre once had. Very sad.
This is a September 2008 close-up view.
This is a nice July 2008 photo.
These pictures are very confusing to me. The 1925 photo shows Broadway front view of courthouse, slant top building you speak of appears to be east of Broadway, fronting on Middlefield Rd. The 1947 shows slant top building to be south of courthouse fronting on Broadway. I agree they look like the same building, am I missing something?? I am really baffled now. I now know there was another Sequoia Theatre, before my time, the very fact that the later 2215 Broadway address was called in the beginning the NEW SEQUOIA THEATRE should have clued me in. Remember when looking at photos, the back of theatre always faced the RR tracks.(reason ceiling caved in)
The various thumbnail pages for photos of the New Sequoia/Fox Theatre at the historical photos website usually include the information that the original Sequoia Theatre was located at 2114 Broadway and operated from 1917 to 1929. I can’t find any photos on that site showing a close view of the original Sequoia Theatre. However, in this 1947 aerial view in which you can see the New Sequoia dominating the center of the picture, note that in the next block closer, and on the right side of Broadway, there’s a dark building with a slope-roofed rear section, which I surmise is at, or very near, the old Sequoia’s address.
In satellite views fetched by searches on 2114 Broadway, Redwood City, at Google Maps and TerraServer, it looks as though this building still exists. Could this be the original Sequoia Theatre? The building was already there in this 1925 aerial photo, seen from the west side, just above and to the left of the Courthouse dome. The building could date from 1917, the original Sequoia’s opening year.
Thanks to Joe Vogel I found 2 great pictures of the old Redwood Theatre located on California St. on the SMC photo website. Great pics of the Fox also!! Thanks Joe! Check out the Redwood Theatre listed under the FOX THEATRES CHAIN ON CINEMA TREASURES.