Blue Mouse Theater

1131-1133 Broadway,
Tacoma, WA 98402

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Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on March 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm

History on the organ from PSTOS.
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lostmemory
lostmemory on July 30, 2009 at 7:13 pm

Here is a 1927 ad for “The Jazz Singer”.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 8, 2009 at 4:04 am

Around 1946.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 7, 2009 at 11:12 pm

This is circa 1940s, I think:
http://tinyurl.com/knhlpn

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 9, 2008 at 9:16 pm

The Blue Mouse got an Art Moderne makeover in the mid 1930s, according to an item in Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of March 9, 1935. A photo shows the new facade, featuring a building-wide marquee that sported the name “John Hamrick’s BLUE MOUSE Theatre” with Blue Mouse in block letters and the rest in cursive script, all set with neon. The article says that the entire project was handled by a theatrical outfitting company from Seattle called B.F. Shearer Company.

lostmemory
lostmemory on October 30, 2007 at 10:19 am

A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 427 style 170 was installed in the Apollo Theater on 6/25/1921. Status: sold.

lostmemory
lostmemory on September 4, 2007 at 10:38 am

The link above no longer works. This is an updated link to a 1922 photo of the Blue Mouse Theater.

kateymac01
kateymac01 on May 11, 2005 at 10:31 pm

This theater was also known as the Paramount in the 1920s.

lostmemory
lostmemory on November 29, 2004 at 7:28 pm

The escalator that this theater was demolished to make room for, was Tacoma’s experiment with “moving sidewalk” escalators.
There is a photo of this Blue Mouse Theater here:
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