Welcome to CinemaTour!  Sign In

CinemaTour
 
Cinema History Around the World  
 HOME ·· CINEMAS ·· LINKS ·· BOOKS
 Contact Cinematour ·· Help & Hints ·· About Cinematour
 

Broadway Market Cinemas


2001 Photo from the Dave Felthous collection.
401 Broadway E
Seattle WA 98102

Closed
Record #2569  
 Opened: 1988
 Closed: 2002
 Current Use: Fitness Center
 Demolished:
Capacity:
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
National Register:
Current Organ: none
 Also Known As: Capitol Hill
 Previously operated by: Seven Gables Theatres, Landmark Theatres, Silver Cinemas, Landmark Theatres

Information for this tour was contributed by Dave Felthous.

Originally called the Capitol Hill Cinemas when it opened in the Broadway Market shopping complex, the name aimed to avoid confusion with the Broadway Theater down the street. The cinemas switched to the mall name when the older theater was converted to a drugstore.

The Broadway Market is a rather plain but comfortable fourplex with two auditoriums in the 350-seat range and two with fewer than 100. A visual highlight is the stylized mural of the Seattle citycape painted wall to wall in the lobby behind the snack bar.

The cinema, in the heart of the gay community, programmed arthouse and offbeat fare, including films aimed at gay audiences.

Having lost its lease to Gold's Gym, the 14-year-old Broadway Market closed on April 21, 2002. Appropriately, free showings of The Last Picture Show were shown. This leaves Seattle's most densely populated neighborhood with only two cinemas, the two-screen Harvard Exit and the single-screen Egyptian.

 Photos
 Photos remain the property of the Member and may not be reproduced without the written consent of the Member.

Photos from the Scott Neff collection.


76 KB · 450x338

33 KB · 450x338


 External Links

---
---

Return to the top of this page   or   Return to the main page


Last featured 1/23/2005. Last edited 2/25/2024.


The content of this website is a research work in progress and is being provided to the public for informational purposes only. As such, articles may contain errors, bias, duplication, or need to be cleaned up. Some documents, images and logos contained in these documents belong to various organizations and corporations. Their inclusion here is for the benefit of the reader and for the benefit of the particular organization, but they are, in fact, the copyrighted property of those organizations. Their presence here does not imply any endorsement of CinemaTour by those organizations. CinemaTour is not affiliated with any cinema or circuit.

© 1995-2024 Vision Entertainment Services. All rights reserved.
Use of this site signifies agreement to terms of service.

www.cinematour.com :: 0.62 MB :: 6.32 MB