Broadway Theatre

Good Rite Aid had the class to at least keep the blade sign up I hear. Too bad the theatre did not survive. Much of Broadway is history as far as unique shops, bars and restaurants. Gone forever to corporate dust.

THE SEATTLE TIMES – January 11, 1990

BROADWAY TO CLOSE The Broadway Theatre on Capitol Hill will close its doors for the last time tonight. The Pay'n Save store next door is scheduled to expand into the theater’s space at the corner of John and Broadway.The Broadway’s last picture show is “We’re No Angels.” It opened as the Society Theater in 1911. Seven Gables Theaters, which has been managing the Broadway for several years, already has moved most of its bookings…

Here are two photos from 1946 and 1948, respectively:
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The Broadway was a long and narrow theater that specialized in foreign films in its final few years before closing. It was operated by Randy Finley’s Seven Gables Theaters and was closed when the Broadway Market Cinemas opened just two blocks north.