4th Avenue Theatre
630 W. 4th Avenue,
Anchorage,
AK
99501
630 W. 4th Avenue,
Anchorage,
AK
99501
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The Municipality of Anchorage is doing nothing with this beautiful, old theater!
Between 7-8 years ago, there was a plan between the municipality and a private company to refurbish the theater, using the downstairs for businesses of some kind and the upper floors for residences, but after a long process to get to that point, at the last hour a councilwoman threw a monkey wrench in the plan by deciding she didn’t think the municipality should be involved in any funding after-all.
The private company basically told the municipality to take a hike, refusing to work with it anymore because it was “unreliable.” There’s been no public discussion of the theater since. It currently is doing what it’s been doing for years now, just sitting, boarded up and rotting. What a travesty!
I saw many movies here as a kid in the ‘80s – Goonies, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Kurosawa’s Ran. Beautiful walls with twinkling stars and inlaid images of gold miners.
Great photos Brad and Don.
From the 1940s a photo of the 4th Avenue Theatre in Anchorage.
This photograph of the 4th Avenue Theater was taken in July, 2010.
From the 1950s a photo postcard view of the 4th Avenue Theater in Anchorage.
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NICE!
This article from June 15th 2009 doesn’t bode well for the theatre. It may well be lost or significantly altered. The owner has not cooperated in efforts to save and restore the theatre.
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What a neat-looking theatre…both inside and out. Too bad it closed.
Those are both nice photos.
Here is an undated interior photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lq3yob
Here is a 1985 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/leenqk
1984 Photo
1992 Photo
This is a 2008 photo.
Nice painting.
Here is a painting of the 4th Avenue. The view is supposed to be of the opening in 1947.
http://tinyurl.com/7uv2vr
While congress (not Palin)killed that bridge to nowhere, Palin had no problem taking all of the money and applying it elsewhere. Total hypocrisy, but this is cinema treasures so I won’t go any further with that.
As I’ve mentioned above, Alaska, while having some of the world’s most spectacular natural beauty, seems to have a great dearth of architecturally significant buildings. They should do everything they can to preserve what little they have and this theater should be saved.
I don’t know Luis. Sarah Palin has a reputation for being “anti-pork”. With a bad economy, some people might consider saving this theater with taxpayers money as being “pork”.
Maybe Palin can get an earmark to save this theater!
Here are some photos from the Library of Congress. Click on the “camera” near the top of the page to see a color photo.
A 2008 view of the 4th Avenue Theater in Anchorage here and here. Enlarged views here and here.
A 2008 photo can be seen here.
Here is a more recent view of the 4th Avenue Theater.
This is a 2007 close-up view of the 4th Avenue Theater.