Empire Theater
620 Commercial Avenue,
Anacortes,
WA
98221
620 Commercial Avenue,
Anacortes,
WA
98221
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Here is another theater photo that I found. It is the former Empire Theater in Anacortes, Washington. The photo was taken during a 1939 remodel of the theater. I don’t know if the Empire Theater was demolished or not but a jewelry store is located at this address today. Click the link below for the photo.
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This website has some photos of the Empire Theater.
Here’s another shot of the Empire
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That looks like the same photo as the one in the Related Websites link above.
From the Anacortes American newspaper, May 3rd 1928: EMPIRE THEATER GETS NEW COLD LIGHT SIGN “Waldo Ives, of the Empire Theater, has erected a new 20-foot Neon sign, it being one of the newest innovations in signs in the northwest, and one that is rapidly supplanting the old electric signs. The sign is made of glass rods filled with gas, and the name Ives in in blue, the word Empire is in red, and the word theater is incandescent lights. It is the first of the new gas signs to be installed in the county.” Skagit county, BTW…and I think Anacortes used to be the county seat.
Thanks for posting those photos!
Here is a new link to the photo posted by Martineaux on Nov 9, 2008. Status should be closed and function is retail.
Though no theater name is mentioned, the following item in the December 20, 1913, issue of Domestic Engineering probably refers to the Empire: “Work is progressing on the fireproof theater, being erected on the corner of Seventh and Commercial Avenues, through the winter.”