Coliseum Theatre

Joe Vogel on May 13, 2015 at 5:19 pm

There was a Coliseum Theatre operating in Juneau at least as early as 1917, when it was mentioned in the September issue of the official organ of the Washington State Music Teachers' Association, Music and Musicians. It is the theater depicted in the 1918 photo kencmcintyre linked to.

On December 7, 1922, a local newspaper reported the W. D. Gross had bought property next to the Alaskan Hotel and planned to build a 1,000-seat theater on the site, after which the old Coliseum would be converted into a dance hall. I don’t know if this project was carried out or not, but if it was then the theater that got the Kimball organ in 1928 might have been the second Coliseum Theatre.