Last week Troy and I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie at the Seattle Cinerama in downtown. It's a really old theater at 4th & Lenora, originally built in 1963 and renovated in 1997. It was going to be torn down for something else to be built, but Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, saved it from demolition. It's close enough to where we could walk there from our apartment, which was nice. It is currently one of only three movie theaters in the world still capable of showing three-panel Cinerama films. There are 808 seats, including a balcony and the screen is a gigantic 90 feet long by 30 feet high. There are stars on the ceiling and a huge lavender drape that covers the screen. The sound system was really good too. I knew it would be crowded, so we bought tickets a few hours ahead of time and then we arrived at the theater about 35 minutes before it was supposed to start. If we'd gotten there any later, we would've had a hard time finding a good seat. We'll probably go again soon if The Dark Knight is showing there. If you're going to see a movie in Seattle, you should definitely see it at the Cinerama, it was an awesome theater.
We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
- Troy & Lesley H
Monday, June 2, 2008
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Yeah, when I saw it from the outside, I thought it was a neat building but figured it would be a dump inside. The seats themselves weren't great, but it's a neat theater in an old building in a historic location.
Really old theater, huh, Les?? Built in 1963. Guess I'm really, really old then. I was built before that!!
Aunt Doris
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