Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Avenue South,
Seattle,
WA
98118
4916 Rainier Avenue South,
Seattle,
WA
98118
No one has favorited this theater yet
The Columbia Theater opened around 1923. In its last use as a movie theatre it had been renamed Rainier Cinema, screening adult movies.
Since closing, the front of the former theater was used by the Columbia City Gallery, and is now a restaurant. The auditorium was used as a recording studio and is now a cabaret space.
Contributed by
Lost Memory
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater
Recent comments (view all 9 comments)
This website has a “Then” and “Now” photo of the former Columbia Theater.
Here is a 1957 photo of the Columbia:
http://tinyurl.com/pnxhd
The Columbia Theater, now dubbed the Columbia City Theater (which causes confusion with the Columbia City Cinema down the street), is a restaurant in the front and a cabaret in the old auditorium. In its final days it was a porn house. The name changed to Rainier Cinema toward the end. The 1930 photo on the website mentioned above was actually taken about 1949; the movies on the marquee came out that year.
Here is a website for the Columbia City Theater. Might as well get rid of the Related Websites link above since the photo is no longer there.
COOL THAT THE PLACE IS STILL BEING USED.TOO BAD THERE ARE NOT ANY OLD PICTURES,BUT THE NEW ONES LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE KEPT THE HOUSE UP!
One old photo coming up. The library claims that this photo is from 1929 but it is most likely from 1950.
Here is another vintage photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yzo6jhx
That photo was from 1957.
Thanks for the new old photos.