Liberty Theatre
132 W. Holly Street,
Bellingham,
WA
98225
132 W. Holly Street,
Bellingham,
WA
98225
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The famous photo of children attending a 1919 Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest (with, in the full size version of the picture, Chaplin himself seen in one of the upper floor windows) at a showing of Chaplin’s short “The Idle Class” was taken at this theatre.
According to a Bellingham Herald article about the photographer, the theatre was located at the current site of something they just call the Parkade, whatever that is. This was an average, modest theatre for its day, but still on the higher standards for theatres (and everything else) at the time, better than your average new theatre today.
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According to this website, this theater was also known as the Edison theater and the Egyptian theater. Address:
132 W Holly St
Bellingham, WA 98225
Here is an October 1925 ad for an Egyptian Theater in Bellingham.
The PARKADE is a four-story concrete structure built specifically to provide downtown parking. There are various businesses located at street level, but it’s rather an ugly structure just the same. Unfortunately, the Parkade turned out to be something of a folly for the city, as it is not as well-used as some thought it would be, people preferring to park closer to the businesses they intend to patronize. I would expect the majority of current clients to be the employees of downtown businesses.