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Title
A7241-2B
Date(s)
- 1938-05 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Detail of the front entrance and the neon marquee of the Realart Theater built by Radner R. Pratsch in 1920 at 5415 So. Tacoma Way. The Realart brought Hollywood movies to So. Tacoma for over 40 years. On May 16, 1938 the theater was showing a double bill of the football drama "Over the Goal" with June Travis and "West of Shanghai" starring Boris Karloff in oriental makeup. In 1971, the building was converted to the Golden Dragon Restaurant. It is still in use as a restaurant.
Realart Theater (Tacoma); Motion picture theaters--Tacoma--1930-1940; Pratsch, Radner R.--Homes & haunts;