Olympic Theatre
107 North Olympic Avenue,
Arlington,
WA
98223
107 North Olympic Avenue,
Arlington,
WA
98223
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The theater is a beautifully restored single-screen theater with its own digital sound system.
Contributed by
Ken Layton
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The Olympic Theater can be seen in this photo.
From Boxoffice magazine, January 1960:
Fred Thibodeau, who also operates the New Marysville Theater, Marysville, recently purchased the Olympic Theater, Arlington. January 1 was the effective sale date.
1980 Photo
During the Fifties it was called the Olympic Theatre,later to be cahnged to the NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE.Often they would give out free candy and Balloons to kids under 12.hopefully, they gave the Balloons out AFTER the movie.Like most small towns you could count on a Double feature.Dec.5 1957 has “QUANTEZ”,“FIRE DOWN BELOW”,“BLACK KNIGHT”.“BAILOUT AT 43,000 FEET”,“3:10 to YUMA” and “GUN GLORY”. In the Sixties THE NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE was showing this Double feature,“SIGN OF THE GLADIATORS” and “SPOILERS OF THE FOREST”.Saturday matinee started at one in the Afternoon.
During the Fifties it was called the Olympic Theatre,later to be changed to the NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE.Often they would give out free candy and Balloons to kids under 12.hopefully, they gave the Balloons out AFTER the movie.Like most small towns you could count on a Double feature.Dec.5 1957 has “QUANTEZ”,“FIRE DOWN BELOW”, with"BLACK KNIGHT".“BAILOUT AT 43,000 FEET”,“3:10 to YUMA” and “GUN GLORY” playing the following week. In the Sixties THE NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE was showing this Double feature,“SIGN OF THE GLADIATORS” and “SPOILERS OF THE FOREST”.Saturday matinee started at one in the Afternoon.
An article about the theater and the remarkable lady who keeps it going: View link.
Great little Story.enjoyed the read.
The survival of this theater is in doubt due to the studios' abandonment of 35mm film: View article
Going to digital projection is going to kill all these small town theatres.
The studios/distributors simply do not care about small town theaters any more because they don’t gross enough money.