PSTOS - Embassy Theatre, Seattle Washington

Embassy Theatre - 2/9 Kimball
Seattle, Washington
3rd & Union St.
Organ installation timeframe: 1925 -

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Entrance to the Embassy Theatre, c.1930. Marvin Fox, doorman. Photo courtesy Jeff Fox

Embassy console (as installed the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church)

This photo offers a glimse of the Embassy Theatre. It was taken in 1928 during construction along 3rd Avenue. The view is North from Union St.

Embassy ticket book, c.1930s The Embassy Theatre originally had a 2/9 Kimball (opus 6859) installed in 1925. Eddie Zollman was organist at the Embassy for a few years.

The organ was later moved in 1932 to the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church (original location) and then in the mid-1960's to the Shawver residence in Edmonds, Washington.

The theater building later housed the GO Guy drug store and the theatre portion was a porn cinema before closing in the late 1980s. Now, the 3rd avenue level houses the popular Wild Ginger pan-Asian restaurant across the street from Benaroya Hall (home of the Seattle Symphony). The former Embassy Theatre space was remodeled in 2003 and now operates as the 300 seat Triple Door music club.

http://thetripledoor.net

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3rd Avenue, Embassy Theatre on left, c.1947

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Ad for the Embassy Theatre feature, Wednesday September 7, 1927. Note mention of organist Eddie Clifford in lower left.

Embassy Theatre c.1987. Photo courtesy Jeff Fox