February 4, 1927 photo credit Tacoma Public Library.

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February 4, 1927 photo credit Tacoma Public Library. Description credit Tacoma Historical Society. “H.C. Weaver Productions electrical apparatus at the opening of the Broadway Theater on February 4, 1927. Staff from the film studio were pictured along with their portable generator at 7 p.m. All of the studio’s lights were on loan to light up the night for the Grand Opening of the Broadway Theater and the street party to follow. The theater originally opened in 1890 as the Tacoma Theatre, a grand opera house; it was reopened as the Broadway from 1927-33. The remodel included a new neon marquee. The theater changed names again in 1933 to the Music Box and remained the Music Box for 30 years until destroyed by fire in April, 1963. H.C. Weaver Productions made three movies in their studio on Titlow Beach in Tacoma between 1924 and 1928.”