Type Indoor theatre Phone +1 650-324-3700 | Opened 1925 Architecture firm Weeks and Day | |
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Location 221 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94022 Address 221 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA Similar Cinemark Redwood Downtow, Stanford Shopping Center, Hoover Tower, Palo Alto Baylands Nature Pr, Iris & B Gerald Cantor C | ||
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The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. It was designed and built in the 1920s as a movie palace styled in neoclassical Persian and Moorish architecture. Today it specializes in films produced between 1910 and 1970 and seasonal programs typically include film festivals for various genres, directors, and actors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, and Cary Grant.
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History
Designed by architects Weeks and Day, the theater was built at a cost of USD $300,000 and opened in 1925. It was purchased in 1987 for $7.7 million and restored by David and Lucile Packard Foundation at an additional cost of $6 million for a 1989 grand opening of The Wizard of Oz. It is currently operated by the Stanford Theatre Foundation, led by David Woodley Packard, the son of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard. The Theatre has a "The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ" theatre organ made by Rudolph Wurlitzer Company. The Stanford Theatre frequently accounts for as much as twenty-five percent of all classic film attendance in the United States.