Go inside Riverside’s Fox Performing Arts Center; the Fox is new again

Riverside’s Fox Performing Arts Center public opening: Click to watch.

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Riverside’s elite ponied up $150 for hors d’oeuvres, champagne and a first peek at the renovated Fox Theater on Friday night, January 15th.

The venue, first opened in 1929 as the Riverside Theatre to offer vaudeville and early talkies, still smelled of paint as it made its official debut as the Fox Performing Arts Center.

Fox Foundation Gala attendees, clad in tuxes and evening finery, were greeted by a phalanx of period cars and a flirting Rhett Butler — a nod to the venue’s history as the site of the first public screening of “Gone With the Wind.” (Pictured below before the May 2007 renovation.)

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Food and champagne were served in three giant plastic tents, complete with crystal chandeliers and live jazz, set up at Mission Inn Avenue and Market Street.

Click here to read a review of the opening of the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside.

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Click here to learn about the vehicles associated with the opening of Riverside’s Fox in 1929.Click here to watch a documentary on Riverside’s Fox Theater.

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Sunday, January 17, 2010


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