Des Moines Cinema
22333 Marine View Drive S,
Des Moines,
WA
98198
22333 Marine View Drive S,
Des Moines,
WA
98198
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Website with renovation plans, but undated.
https://thedesmoinestheater.org/index.php/renovation-plans/
1/27/48 photo added via Steve Larrick.
Still closed as of April 19, 2016. The building was purchased in late 2015 with the intent of making it into a live performance venue but no word since as to what, if anything, has been done to the theatre.
Yes it is closed, and the building is for sale. I hope that it saved.
Has this closed? showtimes for this cinema are nowhere to be found.
Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/mf2odv
Here are photos from 1961 and 2003. Function should be changed to movies (first run).
http://tinyurl.com/4z5tsb
I just discovered that this theater closed TEMPORARILY in December for repairs. It had to close for noncompliance building issues. A bunch of volunteers stepped up to help operator Joel Thomson get the theater into compliance. The theater is expected to reopen this month. Fingers crossed!
I remember that in the 1960s this theater would project advertisements out the upper window onto the wall of the building across the alley. The only movie I can recall seeing there was Bambi which really messed with my head, animals being burned alive. Later when it became a porno house I was still pretty young & it seemed so weird that I’d seen Bambi in a porno theater.
Now that the Lewis and Clark theater has closed, the Des Moines Cinema has started showing first-run movies. That along with the closing of 12 screens in Federal Way means this single screen movie theater has a large area of South King County all to itself.