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517 17th St
Oakland CA

	Record #24373
Opened: October 14, 1928 Closed: 1983 Current Use: Office Space Demolished:	Capacity: 1075 seats Architect(s): Weeks & Day Architectural Style(s): National Register: Current Organ: none
Also Known As: Dufwin
Previously operated by: Blumenfeld Theatres

Information for this tour was contributed by Jack Tillmany.

Dufwin: 517 - 17th St.: opened 8 October 1928; [name comes from combining last names of Henry Dufwin & wife Dale Winter who did repertory theatre there & elsewhere in Bay Area).

Renamed Roxie December 1930; closed 18 August 1983; gutted & transformed into office building, but original facade restored & saved.

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Last featured 12/4/2003. Last edited 3/24/2010.


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