The Coliseum Theater by auntietk

Photography • Architecture • posted on Mar 16, 2009

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Description

This building in downtown Seattle (5th & Pike) was originally the Coliseum Theater. It opened in 1915 in the days of silent movies, and featured a Wurlitzer organ. You can read more about the building and its history (and see a whole bunch of wonderful photographs!) here if you're interested. It's now a clothing store. Ah well ...

Comments (37)

lucindawind

7:19AM | Thu, 19 March 2009

fabulous old building !

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Merrylee

11:43AM | Thu, 19 March 2009

Excellent B/W and I'm glad the building is still there...

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fredster66

4:15AM | Fri, 20 March 2009

Fine looking photo.

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anahata.c

7:00AM | Fri, 20 March 2009

always great to come back to your gallery after an absence, tara (like you, I've been swamped with work)...this is another sensitive architectural shot, capturing the sweep & quiet monumentality of these old theaters. (Quiet because they really weren't that large, they just seemed that way...) I like the B&W with lots of grays, and the asymmetrical sweep. And your hues allows the trees to appear like sinews...The "Banana Republic" sign is great: a totally different world from the building, but that's life. And I actually played a Wurlitzer—it was like being a kid on a saturday afternoon or like being in a big carnival. Lovely architectural capture once more...

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