The Fox Theatre: support areas

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 Pressurized water tanks for the fire system and various pumps and controls. It's an undated photo from the San Francisco Public Library. The Library has over a hundred Fox Theatre photos if you'd care to go browsing.  



Fans and air conditioning system components. It's unknown where we are in the photo but the main fan room was on the 9th floor, above the front of the auditorium. It's an undated photo in the San Francisco Public Library collection.  


 
Another photo in the San Francisco Public Library collection. This one they helpfull label as water pipes.  
 


 
A partial view of one of the two 50 hp. blowers for the Wurlitzer. Note the DC generator attached to the end of the shaft. Only one of the units was used at a time. It's a photo from the Everett Nourse Collection, one of 14 views shared in a post by Matías Antonio Bombal on the BAHT Facebook page. Included are shots of the console and inside the organ chambers.

 


 A basement plan. Bob Foreman has identified the service corridors in yellow.

This plan and the others seen here are from Preston Kaufmann's book "Fox, the Last Word...Story of the World's Finest Theatre" (Showcase Publications, 1979). Many thanks to Bob Foreman for reproducing these and other images for his terrific Vintage Theatre Catalogs article "San Francisco Fox (1929-1963) 'The Last Word.'" He has lots of data on PA systems, Movietone and stage lifts and more. Much of it is distilled from the Preston Kaufmann book plus there are also fine comparisons with the other big Fox houses.



A main floor plan. 



A mezzanine plan.



A balcony lower level (aka mezzanine 2) plan.  



An upper balcony plan. Thanks, Bob! 
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