Century 8 Oakland
8201 Oakport Street,
Oakland,
CA
94621
8201 Oakport Street,
Oakland,
CA
94621
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I worked for Century’s corporate office, starting in October 2000. This, the Burlingame, Geneva, and 49er were already closed when I started.
Internal paperwork suggests Century Oakland closed 3/30/2000.
This closed at the end of 2001 around the same time as the 49er Drive in in Sacramento and the Geneva Drive in in Daly City closed.
I know. I saw Pearl Harbor there in June of that year.
Please update. It was demolished I believe around the time when the domes in Sacramento and San Jose closed not to mention the Burlingame drive in closed in 2004. Cinemark really wanted to get out of Oakland and get rid of those gigantic pesky domes for good! Oh well…
1968 grand opening removed for inferior quality reasons and replaced with a better one as well as the April 4th, 1973, ad.
2 screens on April 4th, 1973, 3 in 1982, 4 in 1984, 8 in 1988.
This opened on October 29th, 1968. Grand opening ad posted.
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This was actually an 8-plex when it closed and was called simply Century 8 Oakland. Century 21 & 22 should be an AKA.
To bad Ray Syufy got money hungrey and split many of his Domes down the middle. Leaking sound, seats going the wrong way. It was a mess. At least he didn’t split the flagship The Century 21 in San Jose.
Former site is now occupied by a Wal-Mart strip mall.
Vincent Raney is the architect of this building.
Unfortunately, it appears to be another strip-mall. Good luck.
Drove by the former site yesterday, and the once-abandoned lot is now under development. The trucks and bulldozers are hard at work on what I hope isn’t another godawful strip mall.
The Century 21 seated 960 people when it was a single-screen theater. During its construction, a time capsule was reportedly placed within it to be opened on January 1, 2000, the first day of the 21st century for which it was named. (But obviously this one didn’t quite make it; wonder what became of that capsule???????)
The Century 21 opened with the 1967 reserved seat engagement of the 70mm release of Gone with The Wind. It was only a nice theatre when it was a single screen not after the twinning and building additional screens. The Port of Oakland wanted the land that is why the theatre dissapeared.brucec
As stated above, this Theatre disappeared almost overnight. I’d been there several times, and was suprised to find it gone. In standard Century Theatres fashion, the site was razed and abandoned, remaining undeveloped since it’s demolition. Only the parking lots and entrance roads remain, along with a cyclone fence encircling the property.
Located less than 1 mile from the former Coliseum Drive-in, also long gone.