Coliseum Twin Theater
405 Mission Street,
Ketchikan,
AK
99901
405 Mission Street,
Ketchikan,
AK
99901
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The first Coliseum Theater opened around 1920 in Ketchikan. The theater contained a 2/7 Kimball organ in its early days. It was destroyed by a fire in 1956.
Rebuilt in 1957, today the theater is still in operation showing first-run films, but has been twinned.
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Bryan Krefft
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The Film Daily Yearbook;1943 edition gives a seating capacity of 700 for the then single screen Coliseum Theater.
This website has some vintage photos of the Coliseum Theater.
This should be updated to a Triplex.
I was just in Ketchikan and the theater appears to be a twin. It looked dreadful from the outside, but I guess it is all this town has.
You can see the Coliseum in the background of this 1935 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/o7sm6
Here is a picture of a fire in 1956:
http://tinyurl.com/y3kzfr
Here is a recent close-up view.
A 2005 view of the Coliseum Twin theater in Ketchikan.
Could that Marquee be any less attractive? Especially when compared to the vintage photos posted by LM on 6/6/04.
According to this article about the theater’s history, the existing theater is actually the second Coliseum Theater on the site and opened in 1957. The 1956 fire, mentioned above, destroyed the first which opened in 1924: View link. The organ probably was destroyed in the fire if had not been previously removed.