Fox Theatre |
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Address |
7th Avenue at Olive Street (northeast corner) |
Opening Night Seating Capacity |
unknown |
Original Theatre Owner |
Fox West Coast Theatres |
Original Theatre Architect |
unknown |
Years of Operation |
Opened 19 April 1929 |
Type of Musical Accompaniment |
4/16 Robert Morton Theatre pipe organ |
Current Status |
Demolished (circa 1991-1992) |
Fox Theatre was originally planned and built as the Mayflower Theatre; it is not known to have operated under that name.
Showing the week of 1 December 1929, Marianne (1929), with The Jazz Fool (1929); 6 December 1929, Sunny Side Up (1929); late December 1929 or early 1930, Hallelujah (1929).
The theatre name was changed to the 7th Avenue Theatre in the early 1930s, presumably after the Fox chain was forced to sell many of their theatre holdings. The theatre was controlled by Hamrick-Evergreen Theatres circa 1936, by which time it had been renamed the Music Hall Theatre.
In the years before its demolition, the theatre operated as a dinner theatre and a special event venue as the Emerald Palace (but the exterior signage remained Music Hall Theatre).
References: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, pp. 6E, 7E, 8E; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 December 1929, p. 13; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 December 1929, p. 15 : Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website.
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