Washington Center for the Performing Arts
512 Washington Street SE,
Olympia,
WA
98501
512 Washington Street SE,
Olympia,
WA
98501
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Wish that I could have seen this theatre in its original incarnation. The current rendering is a sterile, bland, 80’s style industrial motif. On the plus side, plenty of leg room.
Reopening as Olympic on April 2nd, 1948
Olympic theatre opening 01 Apr 1948, Thu The Olympian (Olympia, Washington) Newspapers.com
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Grand opening ad as Liberty from August 30th, 1924, posted.
The September 20, 1924, issue of The Moving Picture World gives the opening date of the Liberty Theatre as August 30. The Moore Amusement Company house featured vaudeville and pictures:
Andy Crow, well-known Pacific Northwest organist who restored the pipe organ in this theater, passed away a few days ago. The pipe organ has been renamed the “Andy Crow Wurlitzer” in his memory. He will receive a posthumous award later in the year for his many years of playing music for silent movies in this and other theaters.
Functions should include: Movies (silent)
The theater is in the middle of a 4 million dollar facelift and remodeling. It will also get a marquee for the first time in it’s life. I will get pictures when the project is done in a few months.
Here are two November 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/5s62qw
http://tinyurl.com/5zud4t
The exterior is rather plain. I didn’t realize that this was a former theater when I saw it today.
They took the old theater down to PART of one wall to classify as a remodel. This was so the City of Olympia (as operators of this building) would not have to meet their own parking regulations!