File:Coliseum Theatre on a snowy night, Seattle, February 1916 (MOHAI 1992).jpg
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editEnglish: Coliseum Theatre on a snowy night, Seattle, February 1916 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Webster & Stevens |
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English: Coliseum Theatre on a snowy night, Seattle, February 1916 |
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Description |
English: By 1915, Seattle's downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and the elegant venue opened on January 8, 1916. In addition to the shows, features included a large smoking room for men, large restrooms for women, a children's playroom, caged songbirds, and lavish floral arrangements. Managed at first by The Greater Theatres Company, the theater remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. The Coliseum closed in 1990 but was reborn as a Banana Republic store in 1994 with some of its original elegance still intact. This view shows the Coliseum Theatre framed by lights on a snowy night.Signs in image: Coliseum. Hotel [Nav...]. Hotel Waldorf. Handwritten on sleeve: Coliseum Theatre in Snow, Feb 1916. Caption information source: Seattle Daily Times, March 7, 1915, p. 1; May 9, 1915, p. 5; and January 2, 1916, p. 24. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org Essay 2538.
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English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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Date | Taken on 1 February 1916 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: 1 glass negative: b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
sign: "Hotel Waldorf"
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