Olympian Theatre
113 E. 1st Street,
Port Angeles,
WA
98362
113 E. 1st Street,
Port Angeles,
WA
98362
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Jack McGregor “Mack” Davis of the Dream Theater announced this $60,000 project in May of 1924. It would be built to the plans architect George B. Purvis and carry a 25-year lease upon completion. Opened as the Mack Theatre on November 24, 1922 Mack sold off the theater in 1926.
The venue remained the Mack Theatre for a brief transitional period. Prior to the name change, the new operators, Edwin and Evan Halberg, installed a three manual and pedal $25,000 Robert Morton Orchestra Organ was installed with the venue teasing a new name. That year it would be renamed The Olympian.
In 1927, it received a major overhaul and reopening (see ad in photos) and a new Robert Morton pipe organ. That theater was then donated by the Halbergs to the Lutheran church which used the venue and organ through 1957 before replacing it with a new organ in a new location in 1963. The Olympian operated until 1961 when the City closed it for safety issues. DelGuzzi Construction demolished the Olympian in July of 1969.
From the late 1930s a photo postcard view of East 1st Street along with the Olympian Theatre in Port Angeles.
Here is a November 1956 ad from the same source:
http://tinyurl.com/mfp4sv
Here is an article from the Port Angeles Evening News on May 6, 1969. The photos were too dark to reproduce here.
http://tinyurl.com/ktuqjy
http://tinyurl.com/legnqp
http://tinyurl.com/mkks7s
Demolished in 1969 for “Shopper’s Parking”.