This image was taken of United Artists Cinema 150 shortly after its opening on October 3, 1969 in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood at Sixth Avenue and Blanchard Street. This movie theater was the first in the Northwest to be equipped with the Dimension 150 (or D-150) wide screen process, had a 70-foot curved screen, and featured 850 rocking chair loge seats. A smaller auditorium, Cinema 70, had a flat screen and was equipped for 70mm films. The UA 150 is fondly remembered as the first local theater to show "Star Wars" in 1977. The theater closed in 1998 and the building was demolished in 2002.
Theater marquee signs in image read: Cinema 150, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice;" and Cinema 70: This year it's "Easy Rider," Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper. Handwritten beneath image: Theatre downtown, 4th & Vine.
Caption information source: Twin movie theater will open Friday (1969, October 1), The Seattle Times, p. 16. Caption information source: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4370
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
