The Admiral was a first-run theater for a brief time after it was twinned. Then Sterling Theaters sold it with the stipulation that subsequent owners could never show first-run movies (and compete with SRO’s South Seattle theaters). So it’s been second-run ever since. It’s strange that a neighborhood as big as West Seattle has no first-run theater. Regal Cinemas had plans at one time to build a multiplex at Westwood Village, but that never happened. An independent exhibitor attempted to lease an empty store there for conversion to a cinema, but the mall management didn’t want a theater there.
Oops,forgot something: it has 204 seats and is independently owned by Paul Doyle, who ran the Grand Illusion in Seattle’s University District for 20 years.
The Admiral was a first-run theater for a brief time after it was twinned. Then Sterling Theaters sold it with the stipulation that subsequent owners could never show first-run movies (and compete with SRO’s South Seattle theaters). So it’s been second-run ever since. It’s strange that a neighborhood as big as West Seattle has no first-run theater. Regal Cinemas had plans at one time to build a multiplex at Westwood Village, but that never happened. An independent exhibitor attempted to lease an empty store there for conversion to a cinema, but the mall management didn’t want a theater there.
Oops,forgot something: it has 204 seats and is independently owned by Paul Doyle, who ran the Grand Illusion in Seattle’s University District for 20 years.
This is a former Masonic Lodge, not an IOOF hall. The auditorium walls also have the Greco-Roman columns, but smaller than on the facade.