Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Coliseum continued as a first-run theater into the late 1970s, [5] and continued to show films until 1990. [3] It closed on March 11, 1990, after showing the film Tremors ; [ 6 ] the building was renovated into a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) Banana Republic clothing store that opened in 1994. [ 7 ]
The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
The restored art deco interior of Fox Theater in Spokane, Washington ... [82]-Opened January 29, 1929, renamed Crest by 1950, closed 1959 and ... Seattle, Washington ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The Grand Illusion Cinema is the longest running independent cinema in the city of Seattle, Washington, and has become a landmark of the film community. Opened as The Movie House in 1970, the cinema became the city's first intimate arthouse and showcased foreign and revival films. The Grand Illusion is located in Seattle's University District.
Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [6] The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
The Harvard Exit Theatre was a cinema located in Seattle, Washington. It was housed in a building built in 1925 by the Woman's Century Club, [1] [2] which still meets there at midday on the third Friday of the month. [3] The building was sold in 1968 on the condition that the lobby not be altered, which it has not been to this day. [3]
The Majestic Bay Theater, built in 1914 in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, was the oldest continuously operating movie theater in the United States prior to its closure in 1997. [1] In 1998, it was renovated and transformed from a bargain single-screen theater to a well-appointed triplex. [2] The theater opened as The Majestic ...