Rosebud Movie Palace
202 3rd Avenue S,
Seattle,
WA
98104
202 3rd Avenue S,
Seattle,
WA
98104
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The Rose Bud Movie Palace opened in 1974 by Chris and Tim Curtis. I took it over in 1979. Things that caused me to close it in 1981 had to do with home video, parking problems caused by the moving into the Kingdome, some personal stuff, and finally the new owners of the building asking for a big rent increase. It amused me to read that Helen Highwater prefered the Ricardo Cortez version of The Maltese Falcon. When I ran that as “the original” which was true, I got a very funny complaint letter from a guy who came to see it and was upset because it wasn’t what he considered the Original, which oddly, the Bogart version, was the third version of the book Warners produced. Finally, it was, in truth, The Rose Bud Movie Palace. It was not named after Citizen Kane.
Yes, this was a great place to see old movies before the advent of the VCR. Used to come down from Vancouver BC to see such rarities as The great Ziegfeld, Wings, A Free Soul and Cavalcade the latter of which I could cheerfully hold over my friends for years since it gave me the chance to see all the Oscar Winning Best Pictures til that time (or at least until it was finally released on VHS)It was a terrific theatre near Pioneer Square that closed in the early 80s and was still possible to park your car nearby and not have anything happen to it. Wish there were more like it.