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Piedmont Theatrer was opened on 15 September 1917 by musician Dave Rosebrook as a single-screen theater with a Wurlitzer organ. [1] [2] In 1934, it underwent a major Art Deco remodeling by Alexander A. Cantin, during which the balcony was added. [2] The Piedmont Theatre now focuses on independent and foreign cinema. [3]
The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts is a historic, publicly owned multi-purpose building located in Oakland, California. The facility includes a 5,492-seat arena, a large theater, and a large ballroom. [2] The building is #27 on the list of Oakland Historic Landmarks., [3] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. [4]
In 1998, the Oakland City Council renamed City Hall Plaza as "Frank H. Ogawa Plaza" [10] in honor of Frank H. Ogawa, a civil rights leader [11] and the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland City Council. [10] Ogawa served on the Council from 1966 until his death in 1994. [12] The plaza displays a bronze bust of Ogawa.
The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland.When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3,476.
Piedmont Avenue also has "the Bay Area's Book Row," with multiple independent bookstores concentrated within a six-block radius; [9] the Piedmont Theatre, which is the oldest still-operating theater in Oakland (built in 1917); [10] and the 1893 ice cream parlor Fentons Creamery, which was featured in Pixar's 2009 movie Up. [11]
The Oakland Fox Theatre is the home of the Oakland School for the Arts, a charter school founded in 2002 which enrolls students from 6-12th grade specializing in the arts. [13] In 2011 Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe opened their second location in the building: it is co-owned by Green Day's Mike Dirnt. Rudy's closed on Thursday, July 26, 2018. [14]
Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s.
The Rachel Maddow Show featured the theater on November 2, 2011, as part of the video segment covering that day's Occupy Oakland protest and general strike. Maddow, a native of nearby Castro Valley , said that the Grand Lake Theatre was one of her favorite landmarks when she was growing up and is still a favorite of hers as an adult today.