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CUPERTINO, CA – JUNE 24: The auditorium inside the Flint Center for the Performing Arts with its lights on in Cupertino on June 24, 2019. The Flint Center for the Performing Arts, the place where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the first Macintosh computer in 1984, will close its doors after nearly 50 years. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)

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The Flint Center for the Performing Arts, a historic piece of Silicon Valley history, will be demolished after more than 50 years. The Cupertino theater was the site where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh computer in 1984, and has been home to a number of Apple launch events over the years. The Celebrity Forum, a speaker series that has been a staple at Flint since 1976, has brought to the stage foreign dignitaries such as former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto and anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu and celebrities like 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and Star Trek actor George Takei. Flint has also hosted Broadway shows, local symphonies, nutcrackers, religious services and college graduations.

But that legacy is over, after the board of the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District voted earlier this month to close the theater for good and rebuild another facility in its place.

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