Twelfth Street Theater

574 12th Street,
Oakland, CA 94612

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NAParish
NAParish on November 8, 2014 at 11:39 pm

The street view above shows the wrong block. http://goo.gl/vIno4I shows the approximate location.

AndrewBarrett
AndrewBarrett on April 25, 2014 at 2:17 am

According to pg. 628 of “The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ” by David L. Junchen, the Orpheum (Twelfth St.) (Follies) (Twelfth St.) Theatre in Oakland (located at 568 12th Street as per the book) had a two-manual Smith theatre pipe organ installed at some point.

No date, nor additional details on the organ (like # of ranks) is given.

Does anybody know what happened to this organ?

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on August 27, 2009 at 3:29 am

Here is a photo circa 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/m92qc4

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 15, 2009 at 7:11 am

Here is an October 1917 ad from the Oakland Tribune:
http://tinyurl.com/q7p8ht

gsmurph
gsmurph on May 31, 2005 at 8:48 pm

The Orpheum/Twelfth Street Theater was demolished about 1958 for a parking lot; as noted above, a wing of the Dellums Federal Building stands there today.

gsmurph
gsmurph on April 1, 2005 at 6:25 pm

Correction to the above—-the block where the Orpheum/12th Street Theater stood is now part of the Ronald Dellums Federal Building.