 the paramount theatre is a 3,040 seat art deco movie theater located at 2025 broadway in downtown oakland, california, usa. when it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the west coast, seating 3476. today, the paramount is the home of the oakland east bay symphony and the oakland ballet, it regularly plays host to r&b, jazz, blues, pop, rock, gospel, classical music, as well as ballets, plays, stand-up comedy, lecture series, special events, and screenings of classic movies from hollywood's golden era. ==history== the paramount theatre was built as a movie palace, during the rise of the motion picture industry in the late 192
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