Farewell to the Fox theater San Francisco, CA
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2014
- The Fox in San Francisco was a movie palace providing luxurious entertainment from 1929 until it was closed and demolished in 1963. This was a piece on the Fox my grandmother happened to record off air in the early 1990's about the theater's legacy. Sadly the recording was done on budget grade consumer equipment on Long Play VHS speed.
I helped George Wright try to save this theater in the early 1960s. I knew Everett Norris and Tiny James
The Fox Theater (1921) in Salinas CA, is being threatened. The building is a solid concrete building and the city is claiming the neighboring building (brick URM building) is supporting The Fox building. The owner is fighting tooth and nail to save this BEAUTIFUL building, with NO help from the city. They closed his doors April 12th, and WILL NOT let him re-open unless he fixes a wall by June 12th, or they will abate and demolish. These city officials only think of development, new buildings and new money. The Fox has 1,000 seats of water credits and 1,000 parking credits...that's what they want. Very sad, these gorgeous iconic landmarks need to be cherished and preserved.
It is so sad to see such wonderful buildings destroyed. Nothing can replace them in class or beauty.
terribly sad; such a loss to our city! what a treasure it would be to us today. and seating for five thousand! the grandest of it's kind in the whole wide world, the greatest of the Movie Palaces.
Sad - all the Movie Palaces that have been lost for what - parking lots and"multi plex" -
I went on an ATOS-sponsored trip to one of the "Farewell to the Fox" events in 1962. The movie was "The Mark of Zorro" starring Douglas Fairbanks. When a title card referred to the Governor of California, the audience booed and hissed (Pat Brown was governor in '62.)The organist played Twelfth Street Rag using the organ's piano voice. We sat in the uppermost balcony. Those stairs were steep!
Nothing will ever come close to the San Francisco Fox. It's WurliTzer is alive and well at the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. It was my privilege to work on the instrument at the El Cap.
Ironically, the fact that Atlanta, Detroit, and St. Louis didn’t have the ability to tear their Fox Theatres down was a major first step in their preservation. As someone who has been to the Detroit Fox a few times, I feel sad about the loss of the San Francisco Fox, the New York Fox, the New York Paramount, the Roxy, and so many others.
Shame on who ever gave the order to pull it down
God, I wish this was still open - how cool!
Mr. Lumberjack got the funk.
Oh my God, I don't think who tore this place down even cared that this was a good theater, I hope someone that works at the Irvine company sees how good this theater is and sees this video
What a silly animal humankind is. First we build beautiful places like the Fox, then we tear them down. The almighty $$$ rules the world.
very sad to hear this
This comes from a PBS documentary
They call tearing down palaces like that "progress "....smh.......
sad the people who did not preserve this place should be ashamed
makes me wanna get blotto.
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