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Designed by co-founders Alan Weber and John Harris.

Architectural features
An iconic 1960's & 1970's bohemian paradise in the same vain as that restaurant along Highway One in Big Sur. Stylistically, when the 1960s captured a natural and craftsman aesthetic, they were also borrowing heavily on the great Naturalist, Art Deco, and Fauvist styles prominent from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Around the confines of an early Cannery Row - Mission inspired building, it boasted groovy attachments of thatched wood and stained glass windows, along with a giant stained glass mosaic sign under which waved a sea of romantic hair, belonging to a mythic siren painted onto the wall.

Interior
From Opiate dreams to silver-screen magic, the Dream Theater too, is a testament to the live and proactive reality of living one's fantasy.

Examples. Not only did one go to the theater for romance, but here, one could nuzzle their way to a cinematic moment within the shelter of the row of love-seats with filigree privacy screens. Additionally, it is noted that the lowest seats, large recliners that would tilt dramatically horizontal, had arm rests wide enough to cater to two, or lovers' entwined arms.

Dream Theater had an actual silver screen. Seating capacity in the cinema was for approximately 200 people. The interior of the theater, like everything there, was a community effort. It was not remodeled, but an additional screening room was added at some point for up to 30 seats.

With all sorts of unwritten avantgard activities involved in and around its history, the iconic films shown there kept the design merits at a premium. As a solid work, the theater invoked romance and adventure from its physical architecture to it core. It's origional and actual "silver screen" played memorable showings of Warhol and Kubrick to such acclaim that they became happenings unto themselves. As a long running showcase for The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the 1980s and 1990s, the movie's maxim "Don't just DREAM it! BE it!" applies unequivocally.

Other Histories
Earlier accounts of a "dream theater" are here published in The Chicago Evening American, 15 Sept. 1928, pgs. 21-22. The desire of the collaborators at that time was to build better theaters with more grandiose artistic presentation.

There is also a theater of the same name, built in 1923, in Russell, Kansas. At the time, it was opened as The Mainstreet Theater. After renovation in 1935, it was renamed The Dream Theater, but then was destroyed by fire in 1948. Eventually, it was rebuilt from ash to be known as The Dream Theater "a majestic, Art Deco style single screen movie house delighting local audiences." evermore.

There is also a listing for a Dream Theater in Berkley, CA and downtown Seattle Washington, both from from 1908.

An arts showcase in Los Angeles California was started in the late 1990s. It began as a large and sprawling gallery which showcased wild and surreal art, mostly edging on the sculptural and into performance art. It was named and founded by musician Teo Castro, of psychedelic space rock outfit Golden Buddha, who fell in love with the Dream Theater of Monterey. It is unclear whether he had actually been to that theater or had just heard of the mystique. Curiously synchronous, a more popular odd metal band also took the name Dream Theater based on here-say from one of the musician's father. This is also a testament to the deep culture that particular Dream Theater imbued. Dream Theater, the gallery was positioned in one of the largest spaces in the then burgeoning area known as Sunset Junction and it eventually drew in a brand of performance artists, Butoh dancers and circus performers specific to that exciting district of Los Angeles.