Moorish architectural details of the Fox Theatre in Atlanta

Griffins atop the marquee in Detroit.

Vacant Fox in Oakland

Fox Theater in Hanford, California used for live concerts.

Fox Theatre is the name given to several large movie theaters in the United States dating from the late 1920s either built by movie mogul William Fox or subsequently purchased by the Fox West Coast theater chain.

Architectural styles

Many of these grand "movie palaces" were built with a mishmash of architectural styles drawn from Asian, Indian, Persian, and Moorish influences.

Restorations

The theatres still standing today share almost identical histories of decline and fall into disrepair with subsequent campaigns to save, restore and preserve the architectural relics. Some campaigns succeed, as in Tucson, Arizona, where the Fox Theatre reopened in January 2006 after remaining closed for thirty-two years, or in Fullerton, California, where a non-profit community project is actively restoring the theatre. Several theatres, including the Fox in Atlanta, Georgia and in Visalia, California were only closed briefly before restoration began. There is also a Fox Theatre, originally named the Electric Theatre, in Springfield, Missouri which is currently used as a church.

List of Fox Theatres

See the following articles for information about specific theatres.

• Atlanta, Georgia -- Opened 1929
• Aurora, Illinois --Opened 1935
• Bakersfield, California -- Opened 1930
• Banning, California -- Currently open with 3 screens
• Boulder, Colorado -- Opened 1926 as the Rialto Theatre
• Detroit, Michigan -- Opened 1928
• Fullerton, California -- Opened 1925
• Green Bay, Wisconsin -- opened February 14, 1930
• Hanford, California -- Opened 1929 and is currently used for live concerts, restoration is ongoing ^[1]
• Hutchinson, Kansas -- Opened 1931
• Joplin, Missouri -- Opened as Electric Theatre, recently converted to a church
• Oakland, California -- Opened 1928
• Paso Robles, California -- Opening and closing dates unknown, still standing but abandoned
• Pomona, California -- Opened 1931
• Portland, Oregon -- Opened 1911
• Redlands, California -- Opened 1928
• Redwood City, California --Opened in 1929, remodeled in the 1950s, put on national register of historical places in 1993 ^[2]
• San Bernardino, California -- Opened 1929
• San Francisco, California -- Opened 1929
• Santa Barbara, California -- Opened 1930
• Seattle, Washington -- Opened 1929, renamed Roxy in 1933
• Spokane, Washington -- Opened 1931
• St. Louis, Missouri -- Opened 1929
• Stockton, California -- Opened 1930
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- Opened 1914
• Tucson, Arizona -- Opened 1930
• Visalia, California -- Opened 1930

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