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D24082-2
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- 1946-10-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This photograph from October of 1946 shows the east side of Broadway from the Blue Mouse Theater to South 11th Street. Hamrick's Blue Mouse, at 1131-33 Broadway, was the first movie theater in Tacoma to show "talkies." It was demolished in 1960 during urban renewal to make way for Tacoma's experiment with "moving sidewalk" escalators. The Ted Brown Music Store is the third building beyond Hamrick's Blue Mouse Theater. The building next to Ted Brown's has lost its top three stories, and is the same height as Ted Brown's now. TPL-1451
Ted Brown Music Store (Tacoma); Music stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Blue Mouse Movie Theatre (Tacoma); Motion picture theaters--Tacoma--1940-1950;