The Historical Admiral Theater
Last week for the first time I watched a movie at the Historical Admiral Theater , a Seattle landmark listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It's truly incredible that such an old movie theater is still in activity! It opened in 1919 , showing black-and-white movies, and already with a maritime motif. In 1942 it was remodeled and renamed "Admiral Theater" and kept on showing movies for the next decades. In the late 80's, though, the building was abandoned and it was about to be demolished when the Historical Society of Seattle bought it and renovated it, reopening as a fully functioning movie theater again in 1992, but still keeping the original architecture and decorations. And it is still open to this day! Last Sunday I finally paid it a visit, to watch Mickey 17 , which sounded like an interesting choice: a Science Fiction movie centuries in the future in one of the oldest movie theaters in Seattle. I can report that the Admiral is a perfectly fine ...