Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Avenue South,
Seattle,
WA
98118
4916 Rainier Avenue South,
Seattle,
WA
98118
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Thanks for the new old photos.
That photo was from 1957.
Here is another vintage photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yzo6jhx
One old photo coming up. The library claims that this photo is from 1929 but it is most likely from 1950.
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!
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.
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 1957 photo of the Columbia:
http://tinyurl.com/pnxhd
This website has a “Then” and “Now” photo of the former Columbia Theater.