Community Theatre
5441 S. M Street,
Tacoma,
WA
98408
5441 S. M Street,
Tacoma,
WA
98408
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The Community Theatre was operating prior to 1941, and continued into the 1960’s
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These pictures show that after it closed as a movie theater, it served as a venue for rock music events as the World Community Theater http://www.mikeziegler.com/cwt/ and then became a church: View link
Open ~1925-~1955? Anyone care to verify the exact dates?
Always looking for more info and more photos.
One of the former owners of the theater, Layton Stalcup, passed away suddenly on June 1, 2009 at his home in Olympia, Washington at the age of 89. Layton and his brother Ray owned and operated the Community Theater in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.
This was opened August 20, 1924. In 1930, someone shoved a few sticks of dynamite through the ticket booth window bars and blew the front area to bits. I believe it was part of a Union dispute. I live near this place and it is still a church.
Here is an interior shot with the opening date listed as August 20th 1924.
http://goo.gl/i5ROL
eropel:
Thanks for posting that link to the interior pictures. I had never seen any inside pictures of this theater before.