Wilkes Theatre
Fifth Avenue and Pine Street,
Seattle,
WA
98101
Fifth Avenue and Pine Street,
Seattle,
WA
98101
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The Alhambra Theatre opened July 12, 1909, at the southwest corner of Fifth and Pine streets in Seattle. Its auditorium sat 1,600 people. It started out as a movie and vaudeville theater, but in 1911, owners C.S. Jensen and John G. von Herberg made it solely a movie theater. In 1917 it was renamed Wilkes Theatre and was back to housing films and vaudeville shows.
It closed in 1922 and the building became Best’s Apparel and later Nordstrom.
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Katie Mac
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The Alhambra Theatre had a two-manual, seven rank Kimball Organ.
Here are two photos from 1909:
http://tinyurl.com/pvh6v
http://tinyurl.com/mg2u8
This is a 1920 photo of the Wilkes:
http://tinyurl.com/r3ksw
These might be the same 1909 photos that Ken MC posted. Photo1 and Photo2.
Here is one from 1916.
This is a new link for the 1920 photo. This theater should be listed as the Wilkes Theater since that was its later name.
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