Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Avenue S,
Seattle,
WA
98118
4916 Rainier Avenue S,
Seattle,
WA
98118
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Columbia City Theater (Official)
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Functions: Cabaret, Restaurant
Previous Names: Columbia Theater, Rainier Cinema, Pix Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
206.723.0088
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The Columbia Theater opened around 1923. In its last use as a movie theatre it had been renamed Rainier Cinema, screening adult movies.
Since closing, the front of the former theater was used by the Columbia City Gallery, and is now a restaurant. The auditorium was used as a recording studio and is now a cabaret space.
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Here is a 1957 photo of the Columbia:
http://tinyurl.com/pnxhd
The Columbia Theater, now dubbed the Columbia City Theater (which causes confusion with the Columbia City Cinema down the street), is a restaurant in the front and a cabaret in the old auditorium. In its final days it was a porn house. The name changed to Rainier Cinema toward the end. The 1930 photo on the website mentioned above was actually taken about 1949; the movies on the marquee came out that year.
COOL THAT THE PLACE IS STILL BEING USED.TOO BAD THERE ARE NOT ANY OLD PICTURES,BUT THE NEW ONES LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE KEPT THE HOUSE UP!
Here is another vintage photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yzo6jhx
Thanks for the new old photos.
Add previous name: Pix Theatre.