Aurora Village 4
N. 205th Street and Aurora Avenue N,
Shoreline,
WA
98133
N. 205th Street and Aurora Avenue N,
Shoreline,
WA
98133
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Act III took over the theater on April 30, 1989. However, United Artists originally planned to take over the theater by June 5, 1988 but was immediately scrapped by Luxury before the deadline that April.
ACT III did the best thing to this cinema by closing it on June 24th, 1993. article posted.
Will check the archive within a week or so for its closing date.
I was a Union projectionist in Seattle at the time that this non-union theater opened. It’s owner, “Luxury Theaters” of Portland, OR was well known to cheaply build and operate theaters. I went to one of the opening weekend shows as a “spy” for the Union local. The opening was a rush job, the lobby was not yet completed. There was no concession stand, just a couple of 6 foot folding tables with candy displayed on them. Just a small table top popcorn popper with bags of pre-popped popcorn on the floor behind. Auditoriums were very plain, all mono sound and poor sound isolation between auditoriums. I could clearly hear audio from the theater on either side of the one I was in. The Union Local (IATSE Local 154) maintained an informational picket line outside for the first few years of it’s operation.
Opened or published its first showtimes on December 12th, 1980 with no grand opening ad bought by its cheap owners.