Campus Theatre
2440 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley,
CA
2440 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley,
CA
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Nice to at least see a view of the vertical. This is the only photo I’ve ever seen of the Campus while still a theatre. I can see the dome of UC Berkeley’s International House (still extant) in the distance at the end of the street. I recall that building was opened in 1931. My landlady when I was living in Oakland in the ‘80s was a resident of International House that year that it opened, so the photo would date after 1931.
Here is the photo that KCK posted on 12/9/04.
The Campus Theatre was built in 1914.
Vertical sign on the right in this picture. http://donross.railspot.com/ebt935.jpg
This was also listed as the Fox Campus.
The concrete shell of the Campus survives, its fly tower calling attention to anyone who cares to look that there once was a theatre on the spot. The 1951 Film Daily Yearbook lists it as operating, but judging from the architectural style of the facade that was applied in its long-ago conversion to office and retail, it couldn’t have operated as a theatre much beyond that date.