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902-14 BROADWAY, TACOMA

• 65 images. Tacoma Theater Tacoma Opera House Co., builder J.M. Wood (Chicago), arch. A.F. Heide, assistant arch. John Galen Howard, exterior design Geo. B. Evans, supervisor of construction Moore & Clark, contr. Sydney Lovell, interior design Spierling & Linden, interior decorator Thomas Moses, scenic artist Charles H. Smith, stage builder Peterman Manufacturing Co., woodwork and carving John W. Hanna, theater manager -capacity of 1,300, later enlarged to 1,800 -"largest stage on the Pacific Coast" (67 ft. by 42 ft., 55 ft. to loft) -opened 1/13/1890 -known as the Broadway Theater from Feb. 1927 to Jan. 1933 -grand opening 2/4/1927 -"the magic sign of a wonderful time" -known as the Music Box Theater from Feb. 1933 to Apr. 1963 -destroyed by fire 4/30/1963 -plans at TPL for remodeling in 1927 by Heath, Gove & Bell, arch., digitized
• TDL 5/20/1888 p.3 Tacoma's opera house
• TDL 6/28/1888 p.4 Our opera house
• TDL 9/5/1888 p.5 The grand opera house
• TDL 10/25/1888 p.3 The new opera house
• TDL 11/16/1888 p.4 Building the opera house
• TDL 1/1/1889 p.8 Grand opera house
• TDL 4/28/1889 p.4 One million dollars
• TDL 9/29/1889 p.5 (Moses of San Francisco starts painting scenery)
• TDL 10/8/1889 p.4 (Charles W. Smith and crew fitting up the stage)
• TDL 10/13/1889 p.5 New Tacoma Theater (description of stage area)
• TDL 12/3/1889 p.4 A private exhibition (mention of Edward Loitz, scene painter)
• TDL 12/25/1889 p.5 Tacoma theater (list of officers, contractors, bookings)
• TDL 1/1/1890 p.1 (ad, sketch)
• TDL 1/8/1890 p.4 There will be a crowd (opening night ticket sales)
• TDL 1/13/1890 p.5 Let the curtain rise
• TDL 1/14/1890 p.1 'Twas a gala night (full page article,sketch, floor plan)
• TDL 3/8/1890 p.4 Fire in the theater
• TDL 9/19/1890 p.4 Sale of the theater
• TDL 2/18/1891 p.6 The crowning feature (electric lights)
• TDL 9/24/1891 The Great Berndardt ... in "Fedora" at the Tacoma (appearance by actress Sarah Bernhardt)
• TDL 9/26/1891 p.5 A policeman's idea of Bernhardt (taken to the Theatre Comique instead of the Tacoma Theater by mistake) T.Evening News 12/25/1899 (interior il of Schweigart's Art Store) T.Morning Union 8/13/1895 p.4 Twain compliments Cole (visit of author Mark Twain) TDN 6/3/1905 p.7 (ad for motion pictures at the Malan-Magrath Theater at 914 Broadway) TDN 9/25/1905 p.2 May revolutionize heating in Tacoma; oil burners to be tried ...
• TDL 5/3/1908 p.21 Tacoma Theater historic place
• TDL 12/12/1909 (interior il of Electro Dental Parlors) T.Daily Tribune 10/23/1910 Nazimova leading feature of week in local theatrical productions
• TDL 2/2/1913 p.8 "Cleopatra" comes in motion pictures T.Tribune 8/22/1915 (ad for personal appearance by Al Jolson)
• TDL 6/14/1918 Sarah Bernhardt at Orpheum tonight
• TDL 4/8/1923 p.B8 Chocolate Shop will remodel (at 908 Broadway)
• TDL 6/7/1923 p.12 (interior il of Chocolate Shop)
• TDL 5/11/1924 p.A9 Veteran jewelers move to new business center (Frank C. Hart & Sons Jewelry moves to 912 Broadway)
• TDL 5/25/1924 p.E10 (alterations for Frank C. Hart & Sons Jewelry by E.J. Bresemann, arch.)
• TDL 6/1/1924 Jewelry firm to be in new home ...
• TDL 8/3/1924 p.A6 Hart & Sons to open new home
• TDL 11/2/1924 p.H2 Hear Houdini (appearance by magician Harry Houdini)
• TNT 11/4/1924 Picked pantry locks; Houdini at the Tacoma ...
• TDL 2/21/1925 p.3 Rachmaninoff recital at Tacoma tonight
• TDL 12/19/1925 p.1 Tacoma Theater bldg. sold ("largest single realty transaction in city's history") (il)
• TDL 3/7/1926 p.A1 Modernized theater for city is plan (remodeling by Heath, Gove & Bell, arch.)
• TNT 8/19/1926 p.18 Famous old stage yields to new; Tacoma Theater "boards" trod in times past ... torn up in remodeling of house (il in 1890) (hard copy only)
• TDL 10/17/1926 p.B1 Theater curtain ends long service (interior il)
• TNT 10/26/1926 All eyes on new Tacoma
• TDL 10/31/1926 p.E10 Forward work on theater building
• TDL 12/1/1926 p.1 Remodeled building to be stuccoed ... will lose familiar red exterior (J.E. Bonnell & Son, contr.)
• TDL 12/12/1926 p.A14 Artistic shoe shop opens in new quarters (Allen's Arch Preserver Shoe Shop opens at 910 Broadway) (interior il)
• TNT 1/3/1927 Tacoma nearly done; new entrance of (Wilkeson) stone
• TDL 1/22/1927 p.2 Broadway is nearly ready for opening (remodeled theater renamed the Broadway Theater)
• TDL 1/23/1927 p.A5 New theater of city gains fame; Hollywood folk autograph huge key for opening of playhouse p.E1 (help wanted ad for usherettes) p.H2 Lloyd comedy to open Broadway (to open with "The Kid Brother") p.H3 (ad)
• TDL 1/24/1927 p.2 (ad)
• TDL 1/25/1927 p.3 Selecting corps of ushers for new theater real task (il)
• TDL 1/27/1927 p.3 More than 1,000 pipes in Broadway's new organ
• TDL 1/30/1927 p.A6 These men have big part in ... opening p.D1 Parties await opening night p.H4,H5 New Broadway Theater presents colorful atmosphere
• TDL 2/2/1927 p.5 Key ... souvenir from Hollywood; picks "Miss Tacoma" as usherette ... (il)
• TDL 2/3/1927 p.3 Bobbed hair wins out with usherette (il) p.10 New theater nearing completion
• TNT 2/3/1927 Interior views of new Broadway Theater (interior il) T.Times 2/3/1927 Ornamental niches add to beauty ... (interior il)
• TDL 2/4/1927 p.1 Tacomans ready for jubilee at opening of new theater tonight
• TDL 2/5/1927 p.1 New theater's debut marked with gala affair (il)
• TDL 2/6/1927 p.D1 Society greets newest theater
• TDL 2/7/1927 p.2 Task of playing host to thousands big job
• TDL 2/25/1927 p.14 Clara Bow in Elinor Glyn's "It" is at Broadway today
• TDL 3/19/1927 p.3 Midget organ will be shown; Oliver Wallace will give his invention world premiere in Tacoma
• TDL 3/20/1927 p.H2,H3 (ad - letters of congratulations)
• TDL 6/12/1927 p.H3 (ad for Tacoma made film "Eyes of the Totem")
• TDL 9/4/1927 p.B5 Shoe store here given publicity (R.P. Allen's Shoe Store at 910 Broadway)
• TDL 10/19/1927 p.5 Dainty Mitzi captivating in "Madcap" (old "Temple of Minerva" backdrop from theater given to the new Heilig/Temple Theater upon its opening)
• TDL 12/2/1927 p.7-9 Diminutive banjo wizard here today (appearance by Eddie Peabody) Architect & Engineer Mar. 1928 p.58 (interior il)
• TNT 5/9/1928 Broadway will close doors Thursday
• TDL 9/7/1928 p.1 Broadway Theater to reopen Sept. 13
• TDL 10/7/1928 p.A11 New radio shop on Broadway one of west's finest (Broadway Radio & Music Co. at 908 Broadway)
• TDL 10/14/1928 p.A8 (ad for Broadway Radio & Music Co.) (il)
• TDL 12/30/1928 p.B2 Midnight show New Years Eve
• TDL 4/9/1929 Gravure Sec. p.3 (il)
• TDL 8/6/1930 p.7 ... to open in blaze of glory August 14 (il)
• TDL 8/10/1930 p.A9 Splendid bill for opening of Broadway (ad)
• TDL 8/15/1930 p.5 Broadway is opened with splendid bill
• TDL 10/29/1930 p.7 Upside down man will perform here
• TDL 10/31/1930 p.4 Hangs by heels to do stuff
• TDL 11/2/1930 p.A7 Harry Kahne's stunt pleases (il)
• TDL 12/6/1930 p.1 Children to rule downtown theater at toy show today
• TDL 12/7/1930 p.C6 Thousands of toys given by children (il)
• TDL 12/13/1930 p.3 "Stink" bomb
• TDL 3/11/1931 p.1 Theater canopy crashes; Buster Keaton at Broadway almost literally brings down house as big sign and marquee fall
• TDL 3/22/1931 p.A3 Free matinee for pioneers; residents of 40 years standing to see "Fighting Caravans"
• TDL 6/7/1931 p.A7 Stepin Fetchit appears at Fox Broadway
• TDL 8/24/1932 p.6 Jazz studio popular (interior il of Halfhill Piano Studio)
• TDL 10/1/1932 p.1 Broadway will open October 8
• TDL 10/9/1932 p.A8 Broadway doors open to throngs
• TDL 2/9/1933 p.8 Gala opening set for Music Box (theater renamed)
• TDL 2/11/1933 p.2 Music Box ready for debut today
• TDL 2/12/1933 p.A4 ... opens with gala show
• TNT 5/23/1934 p.7 Carriers hold party (il)
• TDL 5/26/1934 p.2 ...at Music Box (appearance by Duke Ellington)
• TDL 10/27/1934 p.3 Tacoma to again see vaudeville
• TDL 4/5/1935 p.1 Rob Music Box Theater
• TDL 12/22/1935 p.A4 (ad for appearance by Cab Calloway)
• TDL 4/19/1936 p.A4 (ad for appearance by Major Bowes' Amateurs)
• TDL 5/30/1937 p.B8 (mention of maple tree growing in chimney)
• TNT 8/30/1939 p.6 (ad for "Wizard of Oz")
• TNT 10/28/1939 p.3 Theater's birthday; fiftieth anniversary ...
• TNT 12/6/1939 p.6 Fan dancer here today (appearance by Sally Rand) 363.37 T142O p.130 (account of fire) (il) 658.87 R346M p.150 710.5 T1A (il after fire) 917.972 T37 p.78 917.778 V679V (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.423 City Directory 1893 p.385 (sketch)
• Year Built: 1889
• Decade Built: 1880s
• 1963
• Richardsonian

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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