By jbottero
(2025-06-16)
The Stanford Theater 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. Designed by architects Weeks and Day, the theater was built at a cost of $300,000 with construction starting in 1924. It has an orchestral organ installed with pipes ranging in size from a toothpick to a 32-foot pipe providing sounds for stringed instruments, trumpes, flutes, saxophone, clarinet, and various percussion instruments. Also seen at Virtual Globetrotting HERE