Alpine Theatre
907 Front Street,
Leavenworth,
WA
98826
907 Front Street,
Leavenworth,
WA
98826
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My parents, Ted and Viola Wilson, owned the Alpine Theatre in the late 1930s until about 1942. Ted ran the projector, and Viola worked in the ticket booth and supervised the refreshment bar. They had one employee, “Dolly,” who showed the customers to their seats with her flashlight. Viola and Dolly wore glamorous blue silk pant suits. I don’t know the exact location of the building. I have only seen one photograph of the theatre building. My parents decided to move to Seattle so Ted could work at Boeing to help with the war effort, so they sold the theatre.
The Alpine theater was probably at 907 Front Street, though there’s a slight chance it was at 913. It was still open at least as late as 1972, but gone by the early 1980s. I can’t tell if the building at 907 is the same one the theater was in, though it might be, as beginning in the mid-1960s the town was extensively remodeled in a Bavarian style and virtually none of its old buildings are recognizable. If the Alpine was at 913 the building is definitely gone, though. There’s an undated photo (possibly 1940s-‘50s) I’ll upload, with the theater at far left.