Comments about Palace Theatre in Seattle, WA

Chuck1231 on January 20, 2013 at 10:03 pm

Tinseltoes, if you enlarge the photo it clearly does say Loew’s.

TLSLOEWS on January 20, 2013 at 3:35 pm

I saw that on the vertical too.

Tinseltoes on January 20, 2013 at 1:32 pm

In 1921, rhis may have been run or at least booked by Loew’s, which is suggested in my post in the Photos Section.

neeb on May 15, 2012 at 9:31 pm

This might be the Palace in question…

http://fuckyeahvintage-retro.tumblr.com/post/23134812960/girls-eating-ice-cream-at-the-ice-cream-parlor

Joe Vogel on December 26, 2011 at 3:58 am

The occupant of the building now on the Palace Theatre’s site, Second Avenue Partners LLC, uses the address 1000 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.

Joe Vogel on December 25, 2011 at 11:37 pm

This photo of 2nd and Spring, which Flickr user Rob Ketcherside dates to ca.1911, shows the Palace-Hip building in place, but the marquee says Majestic on it.

Robert Grau’s 1910 book “The Business Man in the Amusement World” has a few paragraphs about vaudeville impresario John W. Considine, including the following lines:

“In his own city of Seattle, Mr. Considine is one of the financial, social and political powers. He is giving his city beautiful buildings, such as the new Majestic Theatre which is declared the finest vaudeville structure in America, and the new Orpheum Theatre, to be ready for business by September 1st.”

A photo of the Majestic appears a couple of pages later (scroll down in the Google Books scan.)

The photos show that the theater was at the southeast corner of 2nd and Spring (2nd Avenue is fairly level, but Spring Street runs sharply uphill east of 2nd.) The Majestic most likely opened in 1910, and certainly no earlier than 1909. I’ve found references to the Hippodrome Theatre in Seattle as early as 1912, so the name must have changed no later than that year.

Chuck1231 on March 1, 2010 at 9:44 am

Some history and photos of the Palace/Hip on the PSTOS website.
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kencmcintyre on December 29, 2005 at 6:16 pm

There is a photo and more information about this theater at this site. Enter theaters as a search term and browse the photos. The picture of the Palace Hip is on page 6 of 7 (not to be confused with 7 of 9, for all you Trek fans):

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lostmemory on January 22, 2005 at 10:03 am

The only address that I can find for the Palace Theater is, “The theater was located at the corner of Second and Spring Streets in downtown Seattle”. It was demolished around 1981 to build a parking garage on the site.