RESOURCES

DOWNTOWN OAKLAND

Oakland Heritage Alliance - nonprofit, citywide historic preservation organization offering summer walking tours, including one of the Uptown District.

Oakland Tours Program - City of Oakland program offering downtown and Uptown District tours led by volunteers; Web siteWeb site has a link to the City's official Web site.

Paramount Theatre - a National Historic Landmark two blocks from the Fox Oakland. Built in 1931, carefully restored in 1973, and now home to both the Oakland Ballet and the Oakland East Bay Symphony.

Lake Merrit/Uptown Community Benefit District - committed to revitalizing the heart of Downtown Oakland, California. Efforts include district maintenance, increased security, and community and cultural enrichment. The Uptown/Lake Merritt District seeks to foster an environment where businesses thrive, art flourishes, and residents and visitors alike can enjoy all that downtown Oakland has to offer.

THEATER HISTORY AND PRESERVATION ORGANIZATIONS

American Picture Palaces - a history of "picture palaces," written circa 1997 by Mary Halnon, an American Studies student at University of Virginia

American Theatre Organ Society - an international membership organization devoted to the preservation of the theatre pipe organ and its music

Cinema Treasures - a Web site devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness. Its search engine offers a long list of Fox theaters and former Fox theaters

League of Historic American Theatres - a nonprofit association, founded in 1976, whose members appreciate, rehabilitate, and operate historic theaters throughout North America and abroad

Theatre Historical Society of America - a nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, whose members record and preserve the architectural, cultural, and social history of American theaters

SPECIAL FRIENDS OF FOOF

Berger/Conser Architectural Photography - photographer Robert Berger provided FOOF with interior photos of Fox Oakland Theater taken in 1998.

Wagner Electric Sign Company - this company, based in Ohio, restored the Fox Oakland Theater's marquee and blade sign in 2001, and posted these before, during, and after pictures on their Web site.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM

California Capitol Group
Turner Construction
Architectural Dimensions
The KPA Group
ELS Architecture and Urban Design
Starkweather Bondy
The Shalleck Collaborative, Inc
URS
KELLCO
Treadwell & Rolo
The City of Oakland

OTHER FOX THEATERS

Arizona
Fox Theater (Tucson) - closed, fundraising, and undergoing restoration


California
Fox Theatre (Bakersfield) - a 1,500-seat performing arts venue

Fox Theatre (Fullerton) - The Fox complex consists of the Theatre (21,025 sq. ft.), a two-story Italian loggia-style "Tea Room" (9,700 sq. ft. ) and the 1929 Firestone Building "motor court" (7,150 sq. ft.) at the actual intersection of Chapman and Harbor

Hanford Fox Theatre (Hanford) - operating as a performing arts venue

Fox Theater (Redwood City) - a 1,460-seat performing arts venue

Fox-California Theatre (Salinas) - a 1,085-seat theater and local cultural center

Fox-California (San Diego) - one of the few venues in the world that belongs to the orchestra playing in it

Fox California (San Francisco) - The Fox San Francisco was demolished in 1963 -- gone but not forgotten

Fox California (San Jose) - undergoing restoration; scheduled to reopen September 2004

Fox California - Bob Hope Theater (Stockton) - The first theater, the T&D Photoplay, is built on East Main Street in Stockton, California in 1916. The T&D was leveled in 1929 and a new theater, the Fox California was built.

Fox Theater (Visalia) - a 1,300-seat performing arts and event venue


Georgia
Fox Theatre (Atlanta) - a 4,000-plus seat performing arts and film festival venue -- a National Historic Landmark


Kansas
Fox Theatre (Hutchinson) - operating as a performing arts venue

Fox Theater (Salina) - under restoration; scheduled to reopen spring 2003


Michigan
Fox Theater (Detroit) - a 5,000-plus-seat venue


Missouri
Fox Theatre (St. Louis) - operating as a performing arts venue


Washington
Fox Theater (Spokane) - closed, fundraising -- restoration and expansion plans will turn it from a movie house to a fully-equipped 1,725-seat performing arts center