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1131-33 BROADWAY, TACOMA

• 1 image. Apollo Theater Geo. B. Purvis, arch. A.C. Anderson, contr. TDL 3/15/1914 p.19 Inspector objects to theater plans TDL 3/22/1914 p.22 New movie house planned to seat 800 TDL 4/12/1914 p.26 New "movie" house will cost $10,000 TDL 5/17/1914 p.32 (il under construction) TDL 6/28/1914 p.22 Handsome Apollo opens tomorrow (il) TDN 6/29/1914 p.14 (il) TDL 8/17/1919 p.B5 (alterations by R. Neiland, contr.) TDL 7/17/1921 p.E4 ... install new organ in Broadway home (remodeling) ----- Blue Mouse Theater -John Hamrick, operator -first theater in Tacoma to show "talkies" -theater chain founder John Hamrick chose the name "Blue Mouse" from a theater he saw in Paris TDL 4/2/1922 p.E5 Old Apollo is closed; reopens as Blue Mouse TDL 4/9/1922 p.E4 New Blue Mouse will open with great feature TDL 7/30/1922 p.A7 Blue Mouse radio show makes a hit TDL 2/16/1924 p.1 Theater panic is averted; audience at Blue Mouse unaware of serious blaze next door TDL 5/30/1926 p.G4 Radio broadcaster on wheels visits here (il) TDL 7/18/1926 p.A3 Company will film comedy in local theater (Pathe to film "Broken Hearts of Hollywood") TDL 7/25/1926 p.H3 (ad for "Movie Makers of Hollywood") TDL 8/7/1927 p.B3 Blue Mouse will show Vitaphone; remodeled theater reopens next Friday ... TDL 8/13/1927 p.3 Vitaphone makes bow to Tacoma TDL 11/20/1927 p.B2 John Hamrick brings new invention to Blue Mouse ("Movietone" sound system) TDL 12/11/1927 p.B2 Blue Mouse to install Movietone p.B3 Al Jolson in "Jazz Singer" coming soom TDL 12/15/1927 p.9 (ad for Movietone News in Vitaphone) TDL 12/17/1927 p.5 "Movietone" thrills Blue Mouse fans TDL 12/23/1927 p.5 ... "The Jazz Singer" arrives Dec.30 TDL 12/30/1927 p.3 Blue Mouse postpones Jolson film TDL 1/3/1928 p.3 Jolson film holds crowd under spell TDL 1/17/1928 p.3 "Jazz Singer" is near end of run TDL 4/22/1928 p.B3 Jolson returns in "Jazz Singer" TDL 5/3/1928 p.5 (ad for "Tenderloin", second "talkie") TDL 7/8/1928 p.B3 Tacomans to see all talking film ("Lights of New YorK", first all-talking film) TDL 7/21/1928 p.3 First talkie makes bow at Blue Mouse TDL 11/9/1928 p.5 (ad for "Vitaphone") TDL 12/16/1928 p.B3 Blue Mouse to close tonight (to be remodeled) TDL 12/24/1928 p.5 (ad for "Vitaphone") TDL 5/17/1929 p.9 (full page ad for "Desert Song" filmed in "Vitaphone") TDL 4/22/1931 p.1 Murder? Gang war! Haw haw! TDL 10/8/1934 p.1 Nab arson suspect here; accused in try to fire show house TDL 10/17/1934 p.3 New Blue Mouse will rise here TNT 11/14/1934 New Blue Mouse Theater opens Thursday (remodeling) TDL 11/25/1934 p.B11 Alter theater T.Times 11/2/1938 p.4 Calendar pebbles arrive for opening ("lucky" pebbles from farm where the Dionne Quintuplets were born sent to theater for opening of "Five of a Kind") TNT 7/7/1942 p.8 (ad for motion picture "Fantasia") TNT 1/6/1943 p.1 Attacked at theater ... manager suffers knife cut on hand TNT 9/2/1949 p.19 Blue Mouse ready for Friday opening (remodeling) TNT 10/15/1953 p.D2 (ad for 3-D motion picture "Those Redheads from Seattle') TNT 3/17/1954 p.17 Theater sign burns; loss set at $2,000 TNT 5/28/1960 Bids sought for demolition (bdlg. to be demolished to make way for escalator) TNT 6/6/1960 p.20 Lige DIckson low bidder (for demolition) TNT 6/16/1960 p.B10 Theater to make way for escalator
• Year Built: 1914
• Decade Built: 1910s
• Demolished: 1960

Abbreviation Key GTWY - Peninsula Gateway, TDL - Tacoma Daily Ledger, TDN - Tacoma Daily News, TNL - Tacoma News Ledger, TNT - Tacoma News Tribune

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