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Yeah, yeah. Oakland's new paramount theater of the Arts is really a piece of yesteryear, a classic example of art deco, which is impossible to examine during most public functions here. And that's why the theater is hosting tours this summer. This movie Palace was built in the

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early thirties at a cost of more than $3 million. It succumbed to a host of financial ills in the late 60s. And now in the 70's It's been restored to its original beauty at a cost of $3 million. It houses the Oakland Symphony now and a

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host of artistic endeavors and cultural events are staged here regularly. It's hard to see the theater itself when you're here to watch a performance. So now the theater stars every other Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. That's when volunteer docents guide tours, which continues through september Mike

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Mills, Channel four News. Yeah. Mhm.